Full Description
This book brings together Indigenous thinkers and scholars with Western theories and practice frameworks to propose a theory for a strengths approach to knowledge production in Indigenous education.
The text traverses disciplines and fields that have advanced strengths-based approaches in providing practitioners, researchers, and policy makers a way of reframing problems to start from a place of strength and capital. Strengths approaches have gained traction in various contexts in Indigenous education; however, this book is the first of its kind to explore the field more broadly and consider its potential for a way forward in Indigenous education. Using existing scholarship to consider how Indigenous education has been positioned in the past and present, it puts forward compelling reasons why new approaches grounded in strengths-based approaches are necessary for reimagining the possibilities for Indigenous education.
Offering a theoretically robust framework, this is an essential resource for educators, researchers, and policy makers interested in transformative action in Indigenous education.
Contents
1. Introduction to Strengths-Based Approaches in Indigenous Education
2. Theories and Strengths-based Approaches
3. Theoretical Underpinnings for a Stronger Smarter Philosophy of Learning
4. Applying SBA in Research and Practice
5. Case Studies of Strengths-based Approaches in Research
6. Strengths-based Codesign
7. Learning from Local Wisdom and Expertise in Applying Strengths-Based Approaches
8. Fostering Cultural Identity Through Education: Indigenous Strength Perspectives from Singapore and New Zealand
9. Thriving Through Strengths - A New Generation of Indigenous Education Researchers
10. A Theoretical Lens for Strengths-based Knowledge Production in Indigenous Education
