Native Indian Teachers: A Key to Progress

Abstract

Indian teachers are critical to the realization of quality education for the Indian population for a number of reasons, despite a lack of reports of investigations of their effectiveness. Native Indian teachers would, it is argued, be effective not only in teaching such concepts as Indian identity, traditions, language, and psychology but also in teaching all subjects at all levels. In addition, it appears likely that home-school communication and parental or community involvement in the schools would increase ifNative Indian staff were a significant presence in the ed­ucational system. Effective communication is the key to success.