Full Description
This book supports the formal education of all Indigenous children who live in different circumstances in different countries. It takes Indigenous philosophy as its starting point, while recognising that in many colonial and post-colonial circumstances, Indigenous knowledge, culture and language may not be valued. For this reason, Indigenous and non-Indigenous theorists and authors are included to demonstrate the recognised links between Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings and practices of culture, knowledge and learning and therefore common approaches to formal education. Chapters are arranged in an integrated fashion to discuss contextual issues regarding global political and economic influences and the notion of what it means to participate fully in society.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
About the Authors
Terminology
1 Global Trends and the Struggle for Indigeneity
1 What It Means to Be Indigenous
2 Decolonising Education and Knowledge
3 Identity within Neoliberalism
4 Living between Worlds
5 Sovereignty and Self-Determination
6 Prospects for Indigenisation
7 Diversity and Harmony in Our Time
8 Uluru Statement from the Heart
9 Excursus 1: Sand and Sky
2 Case Study: Worawa Aboriginal College
1 Living and Learning Together
2 Commitment to Education, Culture, Language and Wellbeing
3 Community-Based Expansion of Student Leadership Development Opportunities
4 Culture Curriculum, Contemporary and Traditional
5 Curriculum, a Holistic Experience
6 Bringing Peoples and Ideas Together
7 Indigenous Knowledge as Cultural Practice
8 Knowledge Exemplars - Two-way Inquiry Learning
9 Excursus 2: Indigenous Science, or Not
3 Experience through the Arts
1 Picasso and Namatjira
2 School Education and the Arts
3 Praxis Philosophy of Arts
4 Excursus 3: Tower Hill
4 Redefining School Mathematics as Philosophy of Practice
1 Indigenous Approaches to School Mathematics
2 Ethnomathematics, a Cultural View of Mathematics
3 Wittgenstein and the Foundations of Mathematics
4 Excursus 4: Rock Pools
5 Language Connections with the World
1 Formations of Society, Language, Thought
2 Perspective of Indigenous Language
3 Language of Visual Thought and Expression
4 Reflective Interlude
5 Excursus 5: A Process of Eyes Opened Wide
6 Education as Philosophy of Pragmatism and Practice
1 Coming to Practice
2 Background to Pragmatism and Pragmatists
3 Practice, Praxis and Signature Pedagogies
4 Discursive Curriculum
5 Excursus 6: Meaning in Engines
7 Citizen Education
1 Education as Philosophy of Practice
2 Assessment, the 'Hard Question' of Education
3 Citizen Knowledge, Truth and Freedom
4 Excursus 7: International Friendship
8 The Invincible Spirit, Defining the Future
References
Index
