In the Sun's House
My Year Teaching on the Navajo Reservation
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Multicultural Education, Biography & Memoir, Reference, History, Americas, United States
| Author: | Kurt Caswell, Rex Lee Jim | ISBN: | 9781595340917 |
| Publisher: | Trinity University Press | Publication: | April 14, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Trinity University Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Kurt Caswell, Rex Lee Jim |
| ISBN: | 9781595340917 |
| Publisher: | Trinity University Press |
| Publication: | April 14, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Trinity University Press |
| Language: | English |
In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the gap between himself and those who surround him, he finds his calling as a teacher and develops a love for the rich landscape of New Mexico, and manages a hard-won truce between his failings and successes.
In the year he spent teaching at Borrego Pass, a remote Navajo community in northwest New Mexico, Kurt Caswell found himself shunned as persona non grata. His cultural missteps, status as an interloper, and white skin earned him no respect in the classroom or the community-those on the reservation assumed he would come and go like so many teachers had before. But as Caswell attempts to bridge the gap between himself and those who surround him, he finds his calling as a teacher and develops a love for the rich landscape of New Mexico, and manages a hard-won truce between his failings and successes.
