Jon Reyhner

Background

About Jon Reyhner

JON REYHNER is Professor of Bilingual Multicultural Education, Department of Educational Specialties in the College of Education at Northern Arizona University where he has also served as the Coordinator of the Bilingual Multicultural Education Program. Previously, Dr. Reyhner served as Associate Professor of Education at Montana State University-Billings, where he also coordinated an Indian Bilingual Teacher Training Program. Before coming to Billings, he taught junior high school for four years in the Navajo Nation and was a school administrator for ten years in Indian schools in Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico. His long-term interest is improving the education of American Indian students. He served as a commissioned author for both the U.S. Government's Indian Nations at Risk Task Force and co-authored recently the research review for the Government's American Indian/Alaska Native Research Group. He has written extensively on American Indian education and Indigenous language revitalization, including two books published by the Univesity of Oklahoma Press: Teaching American Indian Students and American Indian Education-A History. His website URL is http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/