lecture in Indian Reservation, Northwestern Indian College (Lummi tribe), Washington State, USA, Tatiana Indina, Fulbright program 2011

1. TATIANA A. INDINA
Kennan Institute, Wilson Center
Washington DC,
Moscow, Russia
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2. Russian academy of education,
Moscow, Russia

3. Wilson center, Kennan
Institute, Washington DC

4. Specifics of tribal education
Indigenous education is the
realization that ritual, myth,
vision, art, and learning the art
of relationship in a particular
environment, facilitating the
health and wholeness of the
individual, family, and
community. Education for
wholeness, by striving for a
level of harmony between
individuals and their world, is
an ancient foundation. The
main goals are wholeness,
self-knowledge and wisdom.

5. Culture specific instruments
• Storytelling – using metaphors, fairytales,
legends as a source of information;
• Tribal leaders experience;
• Games and competitions;
• Art projects; festivals;
• Creative tasks on synthesizing traditions and
innovations

6. Methods for training & practical work
• Meditations, visualizations; reflections;
• Expectations, questions, feedback;
• Warming up games and psycho techniques;
• Communicative games (group, team games);
• Cases, tests, individual tasks; discussions;
• Presentations; modeling, constructions;
• Practical tasks; role and strategic games, project
work;
• Work with documents; papers; ideas;
• Creative tasks;

7. Psychological challenges for tribal
education
• Establishing a dialogue full of trust;
• Mentorship and personal coaching;
• Motivation and personality growth;
• Psychotherapy in crisis situations;
• Career guidance;
• Life coaching;
• Peer relations correction;
• Teacher-teacher relationship;
• Establishing relationship with family;
• Student – Teacher relationship;
• Individual approach;
• Choosing an effective style of education

8. Tribal education challenges
• Which are biggest education challenges you
face in your work?
• Which discoveries, insights you had regarding
in tribal education process – share;
• Which tools/instruments you use in your
work;
• What are culture- specific instruments you use
in your work?

9. Discussion
• Students motivation;
• Style of communication;
• Assessment methods;
• Improving academic performance;
• New methods of education;
• Connecting past and future;
• Personality of the teacher.

10. Challenges of native culture education
in Kyrgyzstan
• Lack of finance and governmental support;
• Lack of supplies; facilities and methodological base (computers,
• books in libraries etc);
• Translation of materials and textbooks to native language;
• Lack of qualified teachers;
• Establishment of educational standards;
• Low academic performance;
• Education-work balance;
• Intercultural problems of communication (conflicts, fights);
• Problematic families; low income families;
• Cultural differences in meanings and understanding ;
• Modernization and correspondence to national and international standards;
• High costs of education for low income families, private funding;
• Conflicts of values and motivation brought by school and media;
• Conflict between values brought by educational systems and modern society;

11. Kyrgyzstan experience;
• Deeper discussions;
• Surveys, evaluations;
• Student and faculty focus groups;
• Campus media for informational exchange and communication;
website, blogs;
• Developing philosophy of teaching and learning;
• Student research projects;
• Native language courses and curriculum;
• Events and conferences; Incentives;
• Student organizations;
• Mentor programs;
• Teambuilding and training programs;
• Development of shared governance;

12. Challenges of cultural education
in Russian republics of Chechnya and Ossetia
• Nationalism due to religious differences;
• Dress code for students;
• Strict family education;
• Different values systems;
• Informal, radical (fan) groups;
• Women rights;
• Correspondence to Russian Federation education
standards; diplomas, certificates;
• Establishing connection between cultures;
• Traditional and modern values;
• Development of intercultural tolerance;
• Freedom and consciousness of choice

13. Methods to improve cultural
education implemented in Ossetia
• Lessons of nation history; literature; culture
• National holidays and celebrations;
• National music songs, dances, costumes ;
• Native language exams;
• Religious education;
• Meetings with native famous people;
• Summer camps; schools;
• Contests; Olympiads; conferences
• on national culture

14. Ways to improve cultural intelligence
& Intercultural competence
• Learning more about native and other cultures;
• Development of personal identity;
• Development of systematic thinking and analysis,
• Providing education on cultural differences and traditions;
• national character and ethno psychology;
• Training conflict management skills;
• Lessons of history, politics, culture of other countries;
• Knowing norms of behavior, etiquette, taboos, rituals, life styles; specifics
of nonverbal communication in other cultures;
• Learning to be informed; conscious; respectful and open minded;
• Cultural exchanges; meeting students from other cultures; travelling; tv
programs;
• Developing correct attitudes towards other cultures;
• Lessons of language – not only about language but
• about culture;

15. Methods, tools, instruments
• Problematic learning (team work, research, questions);
• Cases, examples, stories, illustrations, facts;
• Audio –visual instruments; movies; video courses; distant
learning;
• Practical work; home work;
• Positive experience; group support;
• Stories of success; interviews;
• Excursions, impression experience;
• Demonstration; personal experience;
• Reflection, brain storms;
• Mind maps; art projects;
• Establishing dialogue; asking questions;

16. Types of Problematic-Developing
education (Elkonin-Davydov school)
• Monologue method; (lecture)
• Dialogue method of education; (discussion)
• Heuristic method of education; (Q&A)
• Research method; (Problem solving);
• Algorithmic method of education; (algorithm and
example);
• Programming method
• (self-learning, computer based
• learning)

17. Model of developing education
Social Learning Social
environment environment
Correction
Personality Cultural
development education

18. Comparison of traditional and
developing education systems
Parameters Traditional Developing education
education
Goals Learning General development
(knowledge, (personality, moral and
information, spiritual education)
skills)
Methods Illustrative, Development through
demonstrative practical Activity,
methods problematic learning
Teacher Knowledge Organizer of students
transmitter research activity
Student Object, Active change manager,
participant transformat0r

19. Culture-historical theory of
development (L.S. Vygotsky)
• 2 lines of human development: natural and
cultural;
• Higher, social psychic functions (intelligence,
memory, speech, abstract thinking, attention,
imagination) are developed through education
in socium and culture;
• Role of sighs and words in mediating
development;
• of intelligence and higher psychic functions;
• Signs are s
• Culture is interiorized through language
• In children games ;
• Role of the game in learning;
• Development of cognitive functions through
culture;
• Zones of nearest development;
• Children psychic development;
• Development is determined by interaction with
social environment;
• Education is the mechanism of development;
• Development is formation of personality
through culture;

20. Luria theory of historical development
of cognitive functions
• 1930 и 1931 expeditions to
Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan;
• Influence of cultural factors
on psychic processes in
Illiterate population and low
level educated farmers;
• Development of system of
meanings through language
and culture;

21. Tools: personal coaching for leaders
• Opportunity to discuss
vision, actions and ideas;
• Receive professional
expertise and advise;
• Objective feedback;
• Reflection and
understanding;
• Analysis and improvement;
СOACHING
COUNTRY PROFESSIO
INFRASTR NAL
UCTURE NETWORK

22. Tools: Leadership training programs
• Assessment seminars;
• Project management;
• Athletic competitions
and outdoor activities;
• Professional
competition;
• Delegating
administrative functions.
• MBS, Mirbis, Arsenal,
NES, etc..

23. Building professional career
Corporate career • Business career
Higher education; • Higher education;
MBA; Career • Entrepreneurship
CV and interviews; opportunities;
consulting • Laws and policies for
Management skills;
small business;
Teamwork and
personal goals. • Creative ideas;
• Research career • Fundraising and Investor
• Higher education; relations;
• Choosing a field; • Management
• Getting PhD; &marketing skills
• Postdoc opportunities;
• Teaching and research;
• Publications and
reputation in academia

24. Case: Startuppoint, Russia

25. Case: Skolkovo project, Russia

26. Case: First Robotics, USA (www.usfirst.org)

27. Tool: webinars and distant learning
• Changing work, social and
education patterns..
• Broader geography (optimal
for education in remote area);
• Adult learning;
• Children, middle school
students;
• Media programs;
• Disabled and homebound;
• International education;
• Non native language speakers;

28. Tools:
Using media and social media to create opportunities

29. Tools: NGOs and professional organizations
• Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
• National Council for the Social Sciences (NCSS)
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
• Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE)
• The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
• The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)
• National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
• National Education Association (NEA)
• Center For International Cooperation
•
Worldwide Network of The Experiment in International Living
• The Secretariat of Youth for Habitat International Network
• UNICEF
• UNESCO

30. Tools: Professional societies
and conferences

31. Tools: Grants and scholarships
• NSF Specialized Funding Programs;
• Minority Research Fellowships;
• Ford foundation diversity fellowship;
• SOROS programs; Peace corps;
• American council of learned societies;
• American council for international education;
• NRSA (National Research Service Award);
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
• AAS- National Endowment for the Humanities;
• US department of Health and Human services;
• Universities programs and scholarships;
• www.hih.gov; www.nsf.gov; etc..

32. Tools: international education
programs
• Student international exchange programs Fulbright;
AESEC; work and travel
• American Overseas Research Centers
• Business and International Education
• Centers for International Business Education
• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
• Institute for International Public Policy
• International Research and Studies
• Language Resource Centers
• National Resource Centers
• Summer schools;

33. ISSUES CONFRONTING HIGHER
EDUCATION
• ƒAcademic quality;
• ƒPhysical infrastructure of the university;
• ƒCurricula development that reflects social
problems;
• ƒSetting clear standards for faculty and student
conduct;
• ƒAccess for low-income students;
• ƒDefining reasonable conditions for foreign
students

34. Global CHALLENGES
• Intellectual capacity building;
• Improving academic performance; student success or
academic excellence;
• Creating teaching and learning initiative;
• Building a dialogue between students and faculty;
• Providing mutual understanding and better communication
in multicultural institutions;
• Native scholarship and leadership programs;
• Cultural diversity and equal rights for learning;
• Leadership and community development based on
traditional practice;
• Integration of traditions and innovation;
• Culture specific educational programs;

35. Trends in international education
In Russia and USA
- Globalization;
- Sophistication;
- Implementation of technological innovations;
- International partnership; exchange programs;
increasing number of students studying abroad;
- Standardization of degrees worldwide;
- High competition;