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dc.contributor.authorCrocker, Donald J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-10T18:05:00Z
dc.date.available2022-03-10T18:05:00Z
dc.date.issued2010-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/12732
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010en_US
dc.description.abstract"The social and professional lives of rural Alaskan school teachers are unique. They live in an isolated environment and interact with students and community members from the position of a member of a 'sub-cultural', or better, of a "co-cultural" group member. This work examines the recruitment and training practices of rural Alaskan school districts with regard to teachers from the Lower 48, the expectancies constructed by and for teachers in these practices, and how violations of these expectancies affect teacher's social and professional lives in rural Alaskan villages. Qualitative conversational interviews were conducted with 3 administrators currently working in rural Alaskan districts, and 5 teachers who came to teach in rural Alaska from the Lower 48. A thematic analysis produced 13 emergent themes. Several communicative strategies typical of co-cultural group members (Orbe, 1998) were identified, indicating the participants' positions as members of a co-cultural group. A critical comparison of the way in which teachers and administrators affected one another's experiences in rural Alaska revealed that during recruitment sessions both administrators and teachers enacted the position of members of the dominant U.S. culture. However, during the first training sessions for new teachers, administrators shifted their position to co-cultural members. Working within the dominant Alaskan Native culture the administrators worked to prepare teachers for their new societal position as a member of a co-cultural group in rural Alaska"--Leaf iiien_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectTeacher orientationen_US
dc.subjectTeachersen_US
dc.subjectTeacher trainingen_US
dc.subjectIn-service trainingen_US
dc.subjectRecruitingen_US
dc.subjectJob stressen_US
dc.subjectRural educationen_US
dc.subject.otherMaster of Arts in Communicationen_US
dc.titleIt takes a village to raise a teacher: an examination of training and recruitment practices of rural Alaskan school districtsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemaen_US
dc.identifier.departmentDepartment of Communicationen_US
refterms.dateFOA2022-03-10T18:05:00Z


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