[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: [EXT] Re: Alice Paul and Parent Education

Mon Jul 19 17:55:43 BST 2021

Great idea, Yetta, to nominate her for RHF.
pdp

On Mon, Jul 19, 2021 at 9:46 AM Yetta Goodman <ygoodman at u.arizona.edu>
wrote:

>
> Hi all....
>
> I was grateful to Tom to be reminded of the tributes awarded
> Dr. Alice Paul.... She was Ken's and my colleague in Teacher
> Education Programs including curriculum, language, literacy
> learning and teaching and early childhood education at the
> COE at U of Arizona during our long careers together.
>  We taught, supervised undergraduate, graduate students,
> teachers in the field, and engaged in research together.
> She became director of all of the different departments in which we
> taught and researched over the years.
>
> I will nominate Dr. Alive Paul for RHF the next time nominations are
> open. I've appreciated this opportunity to remember her many accolades
> and  accomplishments.
>
>            Yetta Goodman
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:36 AM P Pearson <ppearson at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> *External Email*
>> Thank you for this lovely tribute to an exceptional educator, Tom!
>> David
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:32 AM Thomas Sticht <tgsticht at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> July 14, 2021
>>>
>>> Alice Paul and Parent Education in Native American Early Childhood
>>> Education
>>>
>>> Tom Sticht, International Consultant in Adult Education (Ret.)
>>>
>>> On July 14, we  celebrate the birth and life of Dr. Alice S. (Narcho)
>>> Paul (1930-2005), the first Native American from the Tohono O’odham Nation
>>> to receive a Ph. D. from the University of Arizona, where she went on to
>>> work as a professor of early childhood education for over three decades.
>>>
>>> I first encountered Paul’s work when she presented a paper on early
>>> childhood education programs (Head Start; Follow Through) for the 1988
>>> Conference on The Intergenerational Transfer of Cognitive Skills (Paul,
>>> 1991a). As an adult educator I was especially interested in her paper in
>>> which she referred to the importance of education for parents and noted
>>> that “Over the years of intervention, both Head Start and Follow Through
>>> have demonstrated that parents are their children’s first teachers” (p. 38).
>>>
>>> Paul’s beliefs in the importance of parent’s education in the
>>> development of children’s education was documented further in a paper for
>>> the Indian Nations at Risk Task Force (Paul, 1991b). Here she argued, “Finally,
>>> it seems that not only do preschools and public schools have to
>>> successfully solicit parent involvement, but they must also offer the
>>> parents educational and self-improvement opportunities…Many early education
>>> literacy researchers are pointing to the critical factor of parent literacy
>>> level in predicting the literacy success of the child as support for parent
>>> literacy school programs….The Colville Tribes of Washington State have used
>>> Title V funds to increase their parents literacy skill levels and also to
>>> train the parents in specific strategies for helping their children with
>>> schoolwork. This has helped them bring many of their students up to
>>> grade level” (p. 5).
>>>
>>> Following Alice Paul’s passing in 2005, the University of Arizona noted
>>> that she, “… lived in two culturally defined worlds. In one, her parents
>>> brought her up understanding Tohono O'odham practices, which included her
>>> grandmother's knowledge of herbal remedies. In the other, she traveled
>>> across the nation to educate parents and teachers with the mindset to
>>> create a world full of possibilities for children. Paul noted, 'It's been
>>> like walking a fence to live in two different worlds. I can understand the
>>> view on one side as well as the other’. She interlinked both cultures in
>>> her day to day life, her work and in her many published works such as,
>>> 'Cultural Aspects that Affect the Indian Student in Public Schools' written
>>> in 1983 and 'Early Childhood Education in American Indian and Alaska Native
>>> Communities' written in 1992.”
>>>
>>> On May 5th, 2005 the United States Congressional Record published a
>>> statement by the Hon. Rau L.M. Grijalva entitled HONORING DR. ALICE S. PAUL
>>> in which he recounted many of Paul’s achievements: “Mr. Speaker, I rise
>>> today in honor of Dr. Alice S. Paul, an exceptional citizen of my
>>> community, our country, and the Tohono O’odham Nation. Dr. Paul’s life,
>>> which unfortunately ended too soon on May 3, 2005, exemplifies the
>>> impact of public education at a time when we need to speak about its
>>> power. Dr. Alice Paul is a product of public education and leaves a
>>> legacy of its worth. As a life-time educator, she extended the power of
>>> public education far beyond her own experience. Her focus was early
>>> childhood education, and she traveled widely helping communities improve
>>> their early childhood educational systems. Her work had direct impact on
>>> the lives of young children and their families throughout the United
>>> States, from rural Alaska to urban New Jersey. After her retirement she
>>> even served as a consultant to the Taiwanese educational system.”
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Women's Plaza of Honor publicly and permanently celebrates women who
>>> have made significant contributions to the history of Arizona or whose
>>> lives have otherwise enriched the lives of othersBeyond  her many
>>> achievements at the University of Arizona and with the Follow Through
>>> program , Paul devoted herself to Native American education and helped
>>> create the Tohono O'odham Community College, and served on the board of
>>> Trustees for the College, she supported the National Museum of the American
>>> Indian (NMAI) in Washington D.C. and served on the board of the Arizona
>>> State Museum concerning Indigenous cultural matters. She also worked on
>>> Tohono O'odham Nation committee on the Association of the Education of
>>> Young Children, which went on to honor her contributions.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The Winter 2020 edition of the University of Arizona Alumni Association
>>> news has an article Katy Smith (2020) entitled “Inspiration that
>>> Persists: The Enduring Legacy of Alice Paul the first Tohono O’odham member
>>> to earn U Arizona Doctoral degree. Karen Francis-Begay, the
>>> university’s assistant vice provost of Native American initiatives
>>> discusses the impact that Paul had on her and others from Native American
>>> background and said, “Once you have the degree, many more opportunities and
>>> doors open. Then this lightbulb sort of goes off, and you think, ‘That’s
>>> what people like Alice Paul and others have done for me.’ So I’m going to
>>> continue that.” May we all!
>>>
>>> References
>>>
>>> Paul, A. (1991a). Two decades of early childhood intervention. In: T.
>>> Sticht, M. Beeler, & B. McDonald (Eds.). The Intergenerational Transfer of
>>> Cognitive Abilities: Volume 1: Programs, Policy, and Research Issues.
>>> Norwood, New Jersey, Ablex Publishing Corporation. (pp. 32-40)
>>>
>>> Paul, A. (1991b). Childhood Education in American Indian and Alaska
>>> Native Communities. Paper for Indian Nations at Risk Task force. U. S.
>>> Department of Education, Washington, DC.
>>>
>>> (Available online using a Google search)
>>>
>>> Smith, K. (2020, Winter). Inspiration that Persists: The Enduring
>>> Legacy of Alice Paul the first Tohono O’odham member to earn U Arizona
>>> Doctoral degree. https://arizonaalumni.com/article/inspiration-persists
>>>
>>>
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