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Papers by Frances Vitali

Dissertation, 2000

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Global education review, 2016

Undergraduate teacher education program students have the opportunity to work with diverse studen... more Undergraduate teacher education program students have the opportunity to work with diverse student populations in a local rural school district in the Four Corners Area in the Northwest part of New Mexico. The family oral history practicum is a way to connect theory and practice while recognizing the issue that language is not a neutral landscape. What better way to demonstrate this complementarity than through family stories? The goal is to bring an awareness of respect for oral language in relationship to literate language and explore how to balance both perspectives in school culture as prospective teachers. Preservice teacher candidates become storytelling coaches and team up with third graders in semester long storytelling projects, collaborating with local elementary school teachers. Students' family stories become the content and context for teaching and learning. With a diverse classroom population of Navajo, Hispanic, Mexican, and White students, family stories are the ...

Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2017

Indigenous Affairs, 2003

This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the use of information technology by indigenous peopl... more This issue of Indigenous Affairs focuses on the use of information technology by indigenous peoples. Contents: Editorial by Marianne Wiben Jensen International Paths of Indigenous Cyber-Activism by Kyra Landzelius Americas Perspectives on the Indigenous Tradition / New Technology Interface by greg Young-Ing The Zapatista Rebellion and the Use of Technology: Indian Women Online? by Marisa Belausteguigoitia Weaving Tapestries of Solidarity with Virtual Thread. Information and Communication Technologies at the Service of Grassroots Indigenous Women in Bolivia by Nidia Bustillos Rodríguez Caribbean Aboriginals Online: Digitized Culture, Networked Representation by Maximilian C. Forte Navajo Cyber-Sovereignty by Frances Vitali and Jean Whitehorse Arctic Samenet - The Sámi Information and Communication Network by Michael Kuhmunen

Our education system, an extension of our society, has created a monster of historical sociocultu... more Our education system, an extension of our society, has created a monster of historical sociocultural and linguistic inequities, traumas, structural racism, and oppressions. Culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy honor students’ funds of knowledge as their authentic power and voice. The oral family stories became vehicles to navigate and facilitate educational partnerships in becoming more culturally responsive for these teacher candidates. Oral stories, as documents, became the content within the context of the writing workshop process. These documented stories became the technological bridge that supported students’ home experiences with academic language and content to meet curricular goals. During the writing process, storytelling coaches validated their mentees’ voices, experiences, and identities. For coaches, the stories were the beginning of seeing students differently; challenging their own biases and recognizing embedded structural oppression and racial inequality. T...