Hooley Narrative Life

Democratic Curriculum and Indigenous Learning
2009
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9735-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 7, 290 Seiten

Reihe: Explorations of Educational Purpose

Indigenous education is one of the great challenges facing humanity in the historic quest for a democratic and peaceful future. The 370 million Indigenous peoples of the world demand that the racist and colonial wrongs of the past be recti ed and that they stand as equals in confronting the social, political and cultural problems that surround us all. Education offers a way forward, whether concerned with the public good, schooling for all citizens including universal primary education and expanding secondary education, the education of women regardless of background, the inclusion of local cultures, literacy and numeracy for all as a democratic right and the provisionof comprehensiveeducationthat enables both personal aspiration, cultural satisfaction and economic pathways. What this means is that all children no matter where they live, no matter what theirbackgroundorthecolouroftheirskinshouldexpecttohaveaccesstoeducation of the highest quality. This does not impose a particular style of education for local communitiesbut respects that educationaldirections must be decidedindependently by countries themselves. Within this general context, there is also something most profound about Indigenous knowing, of appreciating Indigenous perspectives and applying these across all knowledge, across all subjects of a curriculum. Rather than accepting the one often highly conservative and dominant view of knowledge, teaching and learning for all schools, Indigenous perspectives offer other insights and means of analysis, re ection and critique. These can open up elds of creative and critical learning for all children, including the dispossessed, marginalised and disenfranchised.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hooley, Neil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;8
2;Acknowledgments;11
3;Contents;12
4;List of Figures;16
5;List of Tables;17
6;Terminology;18
7;About the Author;19
8;Context;20
8.1;Global Trends and Indigenous Challenges;21
8.2;Building Democracy;36
8.3;Confronting Whiteness;51
8.4;Education, Being and Identity;67
9;Community;82
9.1;Indigenous Education;83
9.2;Self-Determination;99
9.3;Culture and Environment;114
9.4;National and International Insights;130
10;Commitment;147
10.1;Indigenous Literacy and Epistemology;148
10.2;Two-Way Inquiry Learning;168
10.3;Participatory Narrative Inquiry;187
10.4;Exemplars of Indigenous Knowledge and Practice;205
11;Change;223
11.1;Ambiguity and Indigenomathematics;224
11.2;Policy, Practice and Pedagogy;241
11.3;Education as Democratic Public Sphere;260
11.4;References;275
11.5;Author Index;286
11.6;Subject Index;289