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Decolonizing education : nourishing the learning spirit
Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index.Drawing on treaties, international law, the work of other Indigenous scholars, and especially personal experiences, Marie Battiste documents the nature of Eurocentric models of education, and their devastating impacts on Indigenous knowledge. Chronicling the negative consequences of forced assimilation, racism inherent to colonial systems of education, and the failure of current educational policies for Aboriginal populations, Battiste proposes a new model of education, arguing the preservation of Aboriginal knowledge is an Aboriginal right. Central to this process is the repositioning of Indigenous humanities, sciences, and languages as vital fields of knowledge, revitalizing a knowledge system which incorporates both Indigenous and Eurocentric thinking
Indigenous and Trans-Systemic Approaches Toward Decolonizing the Academy
This presentation will focus on the mandates, challenges and tensions of Indigenization and reconciliation arising from what counts as knowledge in the university, how Eurocentrism creates cognitive imperialism, and how Indigenous knowledges matter in decolonizing the academy. Dr. Battiste will provide the diverse ways Indigenization is practiced across Canada in universities and offer promising practices for reconciliation and decolonial Indigenization
First nations education in Canada : the circle unfolds
Comprend des références bibliographiques et un index
Introduction: Thinking Places: Indigenous Humanities and Education
Every conception of humanity arises from a specific
place and from the people of that place. How such places
shape and sustain the people of a place is the focus of
education that enables each student to understand
themselves and makes them feel at home in the world. The
notion of Indigenous humanities being developed at the
University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon represents an
example of such ecological teachings and practices of what
constitutes humanity. Ecology is the animating force that
teaches us how to be human in ways that theological, moral
and political ideologies are unable to. Ecology privileges
no particular people or way of life. It does, however,
promote Indigenous humanity as affirmed in Article 1 of the
1966 UNESCO
Declaration of the Principles of International
Cultural Co-operation: “Each culture has a dignity
and value which must be respected and preserved” (Office of
the High Commissioner for Human Rights, 1966). In the
Eurocentric versions of humanity, this concept is sometimes
referred to as cultural diversity; yet Indigenous peoples
prefer the concept of Indigenous humanities.</jats:p