Parent voices revisited: American Indian relationships with schools

<p>This study duplicated the survey research of Robinson-Zanartu and Majel-Dixon in their 1996 article "Parent Voices: American Indian Relationships with Schools" published in <em>The Journal of American Indian Education</em>. Two hypotheses were investigated in this study. The first hypothesis was that due to the increase in multicultural education training that teachers receive as pre-service teachers and in professional development, there would be an increase in Native American parent/community satisfaction with the schools that service their children. The second hypothesis was that due to this multicultural education training there would be a reduction in referrals of Native American students to special education programs. Although there was a slight improvement in satisfaction on the Likert Scale portion of the survey, the open-ended responses indicated much of the same frustrations documented in the original study. The data collected in the current study documented a reduction of Native American student referrals to special education.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Open Access Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Teacher Education

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Herzog, Catherine A.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Philip Smith, Ed.D.
• Jacquelyn McGinnis, Ph.D.

• Indians of North America
• education
• multicultural education
• Native Americans
• special education

Repository record dc:identifier

https://commons.emich.edu/theses/670

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:commons.emich.edu:theses-2049