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This handbook brings together in a single volume the groundbreaking
work of scholars who have conducted studies of student experiences
of school in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, England, Ghana,
Ireland, Pakistan, and the United States. Drawing extensively on
students' interpretations of their experiences in school as
expressed in their own words, chapter authors offer insight into
how students conceptualize and approach school. The book examines
how students understand and address the ongoing social
opportunities for and challenges in working with other students and
teachers, and the multiple ways in which students shape and
contribute to school improvement.
The International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and
Secondary School is the first handbook of its kind to be published.
It brings together in a single volume the groundbreaking work of
scholars who have conducted studies of student experiences of
school in Afghanistan, Australia, Canada, England, Ghana, Ireland,
Pakistan, and the United States. Drawing extensively on students'
interpretations of their experiences in school as expressed in
their own words, chapter authors offer insight into how students
conceptualize and approach school, how students understand and
address the ongoing social opportunities for and challenges in
working with other students and teachers, and the multiple ways in
which students shape and contribute to school improvement.
Long before their first contact with whites, the Mandan and Hidatsa
villagers along the Missouri River in what is now central North
Dakota had established a prosperous center for a vast intertribal
trade network across the Northern Plains. Early white fur traders,
learning of the existence of these villages, were quickly drawn to
them.French, British, and Canadian traders were the first to
arrive. Representatives of the Montreal-based North West Company
were soon followed to the Missouri by employees of the rival
Hudson's Bay Company, and for nearly thirty years the two groups
competed for the beaver pelts collected by the Mandans and Hidatsas
from tribes farther west. Contact with the Canadian traders, and
later with others who ascended the Missouri from Saint Louis, had a
profound effect on the tribes, for it introduced Euro-American
culture and trade goods that led to the extinction of their way of
life. There is especially good documentation of the dealings
between the Mandans and Hidatsas and the whites for the period 1790
to 1806, when several literate traders visited the Indian villages
and recorded their experiences and impressions in lively, colorful
narratives. In this book are presented new, dependable, annotated
transcriptions of five of the most important of these documents,
the narratives of the traders John Macdonell, David Thompson,
Francois-Antoine Larocque (two journals), and Charles McKenzie.
Through the narratives and the editors' own thorough historical
introduction, W. Raymond Wood and Thomas D. Thiessen reexamine the
history of the fur trade in the North and provide fresh insight
into that shadowy period. New maps show in detail the routes of the
trader-narrators, and the appendix provides useful statistics,
inventories, and financial accounts of the fur trade of the era.
Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains will be of use not only to
scholars of the fur trade and anthropologists but also to all those
interested in the exploration and early history of the vast
Northern Plains.
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