Full Description
This edited collection centres the reclamation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges, epistemologies, ontologies, axiologies, and cosmovisions that have the capacity to create new educational leadership frameworks that chart courses to visions beyond the current oppressive systems of education. Contributing authors discuss what does it look like to have thriving decolonial educational systems? What is the educational leadership that is needed and required to get us there? What does it look like from these global Indigenous and decolonial perspectives? How do we begin dismantling dominant and colonial systems, structures and styles of leadership?
Schooling and education in the wake of ongoing colonial injustices requires a revolutionary (re)awakening and the creation of schooling and educational systems that inherently honour the sacredness of life on this Earth, beyond the anthropocentric. The centring, reclamation and reaffirmation of global counter and Indigenous knowledges in educational leadership is not an individual, nor isolated endeavour. Through this understanding, this anthology is centred around themes of schooling, community building, liberatory praxis and decolonial movements, and Indigenous governance.
Contents
Introduction - Centrering Relationality in Decolonizing and Indigenizing Visions of Educational Leadership; Njoki N. Wane, Coly Chau, Kimberly L. Todd, and Heather Watts
Schooling
Chapter 1. Tapovana: Indigenous Source for Learning and Living (Experiences from Nepal); Ukesh Raj Bhuju
Chapter 2. Buddhist Learning Pedagogy and Decolonization: Re-imagining in the Context of Neocolonial Education and Development in Bangladesh; Bijoy P. Barua
Chapter 3. Reclaiming the Wisdom of Leadership through Meraki, Metanoia and Metis: Meditations on Spiritually Regenerative Educational Imaginaries; Maria Vamvalis
Chapter 4. Queens, Kings, Mother Africa, and ROCK: A Leadership Vision for Humanizing Schools Post-Pandemic; Kirby Mitchell
Indigenous Governance
Chapter 5. Women of Power Revisited: African Women in Leadership through the Ages, Space, Time and Governance; Njoki N. Wane, Madrine King'endo, and Sein A. Kipusi
Chapter 6. Governance in Indigenous Societies; George Muthaa
Chapter 7. Indigenization of the Professional Cook Program in the Province of British Columbia; Andrew George
Chapter 8. Latin American Matriarchal Epistemologies: Pedagogies of Hope and Indigenous Guidance; Jean Baptista and Bianca Bee Brigidi
Chapter 9. Indigenous Governance in Africa: A Decolonial Dialogue; Njoki N. Wane, Willis Opondo, Sarah Alam, Evelyn Kipkosgei, and Isaac Tarus
Chapter 10. Beyond Integration of Indigenous or Tribal and Ethnic Minorities: A Case of India and Pakistan; Njoki N. Wane and Sarah Alam
Community
Chapter 11. The Praxis of Love: Love as a Decolonial and Political Practice in Human Service Work with BIPOC Children, Youth, and Families; Shantelle Moreno
Chapter 12. Sister-Mother, Community-Mothers and Female-Father; Devi Dee Mucina
Chapter 13. Fearless Futures: Local and Global Indigenous Collaborations for Healing; Morgan Mowatt, Mandeep Kaur Mucina, Gina Mowatt, Josephine Simone, and Shilo Shiv Suleman
Conclusion - Beginning of Another Journey; Njoki N. Wane, Kimberly L. Todd, Coly Chau, and Heather Watts
