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Clear communication is at the essence of teaching, yet there are subtle aspects of cross-cultural communication that work with or against educators. Three aspects of communication impact teaching in different cultures-verbal, body language, and meta-communication i.e. all that is contained and implied within a holistic communicative setting. Indigenous people are far more sensitive and intuitive on the subtle meta-communicative level than those of Western culture. Often educators do not transmit or perceive on that level in the same way or to the same degree as village people. Educators quite often think they are communicating a positive message and helping when they are inadvertently offending students. With fifty years experience among Alaska Native people and forty years extensive experience as a professional educator, the author gives you insight into what does and does not work in cross-cultural classroom settings. This book exposes the raw truth of why, for decades, education in rural Alaska has fallen short. It pierces to the heart of the conflict. The missing element in rural Alaskan instruction is identical to, or comparable with the missing element in all cross-cultural learning situations. Clear suggestions for improving student performance are provided herein, although there are no quick fixes. Becoming a proficient teacher in a cross-cultural setting is a lifetime endeavor. The fundamental question is, "What is meta-communicated when a student is required to do a lesson for which there is no demonstrable real-life application?" The meta-communicated answer is "dominance." That is at the root of resistance to learning in village schools. As young people mature, their culture demands that they become self-directed individuals. When an educational system is intuitively perceived as being autocratic, the cultural need for independence and maturation by local standards overrule students' desires to do well in academic settings. However, when choices are built into lessons, when real-life applications are explicitly defined and demonstrated, when students know why they are doing a lesson, clearly seeing its personal benefit, then schools become help-centers, teachers become facilitators, and classroom lessons become engaging.
About the Author: The author, Alan MacLean, hitchhiked from the East Coast of the U.S. to Alaska in the mid-60s. He lived a subsistence lifestyle with his wife and five children for a decade before receiving a B.Ed. in Cross-cultural education from UAF in the late 70s. He taught in remote one-room classrooms for many years, served home-schoolers in very isolated locations, then became the curriculum and vocational education coordinator for an interior Alaskan school district. Following that, he traveled the state of Alaska for over twenty years, training teachers how to make education meaningful and relevant. He helped write state, and later, NCLB standards. He has served the state in other statewide educational functions as well. He authored many books and produced several videos promoting place-based, relevant education, as well as cultural activities and Dena'ina language lessons. He and his daughter, Rachel, recently co-authored a book of historical fiction, Tatiana, based on the true story of the matriarch of the Dena'ina people living in the upper Stony River country. In more practical terms, he has, for decades, been an Alaskan bush pilot, ultralight instructor, heavy equipment operator, carpenter, firefighter, miner, hunter, trapper, fisherman. He built over twenty log cabins, over thirty riverboats, two ultralights and a hovercraft. He currently resides in a remote Alaskan location, still living off the land with his Athabaskan wife of forty-eight years. They are grandparents of fourteen and great-grandparents of eight.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781547113293
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 84
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 159 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1547113294
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jun 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Teaching in a Culturally Responsive Manner
  • Width: 140 mm


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