Description

Drawing on, worldwide legislation, treaties, the work of different Indigenous students, and notably private experiences, Marie Battiste information the nature of Eurocentric fashions of schooling and their upsetting impacts on Indigenous data. Reporting the unfavorable penalties of compelled assimilation, the racism inherent to colonial programs of schooling, and the failure of current academic insurance policies for Aboriginal populations, Decolonizing Education (PDF) presents a brand new mannequin of schooling, arguing the upkeep of Aboriginal data is an Aboriginal proper. Central to this course of is the repositioning of Indigenous humanities, languages, and sciences as very important fields of information, vitalizing a data system that features each Indigenous and Eurocentric considering.

Review

With this ebook, Battiste helps us to see the ways in which this imperialist method to schooling continues at the moment in the Canadian academic system. … what I’m most grateful for from this work is the imaginative and prescient Battiste lays out for the makeover of how we take into consideration data and studying on this nation. It is that this a part of her work particularly that makes this a associated learn for any Canadian, not solely educators. — Tamara Shantz Intotemak, Vol. 43, No. 1 2014-03-01

NOTE: The product consists of the ebook, Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit in PDF. No access codes are included.