Strength Basing, Empowering and Regenerating Indigenous Knowledge Education demonstrates how to bring Indigenous Knowledges to the forefront of education practice and provides educators with the tools to enact culturally responsive curricula and pedagogies, ensuring positive educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and students. In this book, John Davis presents Indigenous Knowledges – ways of doing, creating, and learning – combined with contemporary education practice, to develop a culturally responsive pedagogy that builds on the strengths that Indigenous Australian students bring to the classroom. Setting Cultural Proficiency as the benchmark, the book offers educators a lens through which to review their education practice. It moves beyond the deficit model of Indigenous education by challenging non-Indigenous educators to reflect on personal biases and to raise their expectations of Indigenous students. Not ‘tacked on’ to an existing curriculum, or specific to a single school term or unit of learning, Riteway places Indigenous Knowledges at the centre of education. The approach is holistic and adaptable to any educational context, from the early years right through to tertiary education. Providing a roadmap toward transformational education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and students, this book will be essential reading for pre- and in-service educators alike.

This book brings together essays that explore Indigenous ways of knowing and that consider how such knowledge can inform educational practices and institutions. Indigenous Knowledge is resiliently local in character and thus poses a distinct contrast to the international, more impersonal system of knowledge prevalent in Western educational institutions. In the words of Mik'maq scholar Marie Battiste--a leading proponent of Indigenous Knowledge and a contributor to this volume--Indigenous Knowledge expresses "the vibrant relationships between the people, their ecosystems, and the other living beings and spirits that share their lands." Indigenous Knowledge and Education argues that such knowledge has much to offer schools and students in the United States and beyond. The volume examines a wide range of Indigenous cultures and educational settings, including Native American, Haitian, Mexican, African, and Australian. The essays are grouped into three themes that exemplify many Indigenous cultures: struggle, strength, and survivance--the latter a notion of survival that emphasizes remembrance, regeneration, and spiritual renewal. Each of these themes is explored in a rich array of articles and capped with new essays by Marie Battiste, Gregory A. Cajete, and Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy. A wide-ranging and persistently stimulating volume, Indigenous Knowledge and Education casts contemporary theories and debates about education in a new--and essential--light. Contributors: David Wallace Adams, Lilia I. Bartolome, Marie Battiste, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Gregory A. Cajete, Fernando Cardenal, Munir Fasheh, Sandy Marie Anglas Grande, Josiane Hudicourt-Barnes, Susan M. Kardos, Richard Katz, Kenneth Liberman, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Richard Maclure, Valerie Miller, Leona Okakok, and Ramon Eduardo Ruiz. Edited by Malia Villegas, Sabina Rak Neugebauer, and Kerry R. Venegas

Indigenous people have often been confronted with education systems that ignore their cultural and historical perspectives. Largely unsuccessful projects of assimilation have been the predominant outcome of indigenous communities' encounters with state schools, as many indigenous students fail to conform to mainstream cultural norms. This insightful volume is an important contribution to our understanding of indigenous empowerment through education. The contributors to this volume work in the fields of education, social development and community empowerment among indigenous communities around the world. Their essays create a new foundation for implementing specialized indigenous/minority education worldwide, and engage the simultaneous projects of cultural preservation and social integration. This work will be vital for scholars in Native American studies, ethnic studies, and education.

Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership that Native people face. Bringing together both Native and non-Native scholars who have a wide range of experience in the practice and theory of indigenous education, editors Dorothy Aguilera–Black Bear and John Tippeconnic III focus on the theoretical foundations of indigenous leadership, the application of leadership theory to community contexts, and the knowledge necessary to prepare leaders for decolonizing education. The contributors draw on examples from tribal colleges, indigenous educational leadership programs, and the latest research in Canadian First Nation, Hawaiian, and U.S. American Indian communities. The chapters examine indigenous epistemologies and leadership within local contexts to show how Native leadership can be understood through indigenous lenses. Throughout, the authors consider political influences and educational frameworks that impede effective leadership, including the standards for success, the language used to deliver content, and the choice of curricula, pedagogical methods, and assessment tools. Voices of Resistance and Renewal provides a variety of philosophical principles that will guide leaders at all levels of education who seek to encourage self-determination and revitalization. It has important implications for the future of Native leadership, education, community, and culture, and for institutions of learning that have not addressed Native populations effectively in the past.

"The co-editors of Indigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis bring various scholars, educators, youth, and community voices together in ways that reimagine and recenter a learning process that embodies Indigenous education rooted in critical Indigenous studies and pedagogies. By reimagining Indigenous education, we suggest that it be rooted in opportunities for a deep analysis of the systemic processes and forces of settler colonialism which maintain structures that defy and dismiss our right to engage an education that is critical, culturally sustaining, and centers Native nation-building. Thus, reimagining and recentering an education rooted in critical Indigenous studies and pedagogies becomes a process of activating a critical Indigenous consciousness that renews and sustains goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy for Indigenous peoples. The chapters are organized across three sections, entitled Indigenizing Curriculum and Pedagogy, Revitalizing and Sustaining Indigenous Languages, and Engaging Families and Communities in Indigenous Education. We close the book with a chapter centered on a call to action for Indigenous teaching and teacher education. We are indebted to the Indigenous youth, families, and communities who have shared their experiences with education across the chapters and who provide pathways to reconceptualize the intersection between research, theories, and praxis in Indigenous education. The co-edited book centers Indigenous epistemologies that serve as points of healing and resistance-leaving us to reaffirm, draw on, and enact Indigenous knowledge as a humanizing pedagogy and as a pedagogy of resistance. Indigenous peoples have systems of education that reflect specific knowledge, worldviews, and relations to natural elements and land which reaffirm one's Indigeneity. The contributing scholar-educators speak to the resilience and strength embedded in Indigenous knowledges. As a result, this book is a quest to understand and learn from the ways in which various Indigenous scholarship and theoretical orientations are evident and enacted with Indigenous youth and educators as well as in Indigenous learning contexts. Indigenous research and theories offers opportunities for Indigenous youth, educators, and community members to engage in transformative praxis. We perceive transformative praxis, we perceive this to be critical to any movement toward Tribal self-determination and sovereignty as it is a dialectical process that includes self-reflection and analysis of the oppressive systems. It is an intentional effort that challenges oppressive systems and applies actions to address and transform issues that have long impacted Indigenous peoples. Of significance, each of the contributors have initiated transformative praxis by activating a critical Indigenous consciousness with diverse Indigenous youth, educators, families, and community members. Across the chapters, you will observe dialogues between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars as they enacted various theories, shared stories, applied various curriculum and teaching practices, and reflected on the process of engaging in critical dialogues that generates a (re)new(ed) spirit of hope and commitment to intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. The book makes significant contributions to the fields of critical Indigenous studies, critical and culturally sustaining pedagogy, and decolonization. Each of these field are beneficial for Indigenous education, sovereignty, and Native nation-building"--

The international panel of contributors analyses knowledge production and the rules of scholarship, opening new avenues for discussion in education, philosophy, cultural studies, as well as in other important fields.

This unique transdisciplinary publication is the result of collaboration between UNESCO's Local and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (LINKS) programme, the United Nations University's Traditional Knowledge Initiative, the IPCC, and other organisations