Alaska Native youth and their attitudes towards education

• Main Authors: Seyfrit, Carole L., Hamilton, Lawrence C.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 1997
• Subjects: Boarding schools; High schools; High school students; Villages; Alaska Natives; College students; Adolescents; Encouragement; Communities; Homework; Sociology; Arctic; Tive; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/soc_facpub/424; http://www.jstor.org/stable/40316429

Building on Richard Condon's discussions of education in the Central Cana- dian Arctic village of Holman, this paper uses 1995 survey data to describe Alaska Na- tive high school students' perceptions of the purpose of school, the quality of their schools, the degree of adult encouragement...