Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada

✍ Scribed by Sheila Cote-Meek, Taima Moeke-Pickering

• Publisher: Canadian Scholars
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 320
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This expansive collection explores the complexities of decolonization and indigenization of post-secondary institutions. Seeking to advance critical scholarship on issues including the place of Indigenous epistemologies, knowledges, curriculum, and pedagogy, Decolonizing and Indigenizing Education in Canada aims to build space in the academy for Indigenous peoples and resistance and reconciliation. This 15-chapter collection is built around the two connecting themes of Indigenous epistemologies and decolonizing post-secondary institutions. Aiming to advance and transform the Canadian academy, the authors of this volume discuss strategies for shifting power dynamics and Eurocentric perspectives within higher education. Written by academics from across Canada, the text reflects the critical importance of the discourse on truth and reconciliation in educational contexts and how these discourses are viewed in institutions across the country. This expansive resource is essential to students and scholars focusing on Indigenous knowledges, education and pedagogies, and curriculum studies. FEATURES: Includes discussion questions and further reading lists and offers practical examples of how one can engage in decolonization work within the academy Features Canadian authors in varying academic positions and provides content specific to the Canadian education system

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Half-title page
Title page
Copyright page
About the cover art
Contents
Preface
Introduction
Theme 1 Indigenous Epistemologies
Chapter 1 Askiy Kiskinwahamakewina
Chapter 2 Gii Aanikoobijigan Mindimooyehn
Chapter 3 Reconciliation through Métissage
Chapter 4 Indigenous Thinkers
Chapter 5 Thinking with Kihkipiw
Chapter 6 Centring the Lived Struggle of Indigenous Women in the Academy
Theme 2 Decolonizing Post-Secondary Institutions
Chapter 7 Is Decolonization Possible in the Academy?
Chapter 8 The Dynamics of Decolonization and Indigenization in an Era of Academic “Reconciliation”
Chapter 9 Urban and Inner-City Studies
Chapter 10 Speaking Back to the Institution
Chapter 11 “If Not Here, Where?”
Chapter 12 Reconciliation Rainbows and the Promise of Education
Chapter 13 Decolonizing Non-Indigenous Faculty and Students
Chapter 14 Reframing Reconciliation
Chapter 15 The Future for Indigenous Education
Contributor Biographies
Index
Back Cover