Outcomes of Indigenous Language- and Culture-Based Schooling

• In Event: Enacting Holistic Education Research, Repair, and Renewal: What Indigenous Education Can Teach Us

Abstract

Will demonstrate the academic benefits of Partner Schools’ pedagogies. We identify matched groups of students in Partner Schools and mainstream English-medium programs, comparing English language arts, mathematics, and Indigenous language development. Partner School students score as highly or higher than carefully matched peers in mainstream classrooms; demonstrate remarkable levels of ancestral-language proficiency; and develop strong identities and a desire to give back to their communities.

Authors

• Thomas Jacobson, University of California - Los Angeles

• Michael H. Seltzer, University of California - Los Angeles