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KEEP Research with Navajo Students

McCarty, Teresa L. and Zepeda, Ofelia (1995). Indigenous language education and literacy: Introduction to the theme issue. The Bilingual Research Journal, winter 1995, vol.19, no.1, pp.1-4.

Vogt, L. A., Jordan, C., and Tharp, R. G. (1992).  Explaining school failure, producing school success:  Two cases.  In:. Jacob, E. & Jordan, C., (Eds.). Minority education:  Anthropological perspectives. Norwood, NJ:  Ablex. (Pp. 53-66). Reprinted from  Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 18, 276-286.

Begay, S., Dick, G. S., Estell, D. W., Estell, J., McCarty, T. L., & Sells, A. (1995). Change from the inside out: A story of transformation in a Navajo community school. Bilingual Research Journal, 19(1), 121-139.

Jordan, C. (1995). Creating cultures of schooling: Historical and conceptual background of the KEEP/Rough Rock Project. The Bilingual Research Journal, 19(1), 83-100.

Dick, G. S., Estell, D. W., & McCarty, T. L. (1994). Saad Naakih Bee'enootihji  Na'alkaa: Restructuring the teaching of language and literacy in Navajo community school. Journal of American Indian Education, 33, 31-46.

Vogt, L. A. & Au, H. P. The role of teachers’ guided reflection in effecting positive program change. The Bilingual Research Journal, Winter 1995, Vol. 19, No. 1,  pp. 101-120

See also extensive accounts and lesson transcriptions in:

Tharp, R. G. & Gallimore, R. (1989). Rousing minds to life:  Teaching and learning in social context. New York:  Cambridge University Press. ISBN# 0 521 362342l.