Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit by Marie Battiste,Rita Bouvier PDF

By Marie Battiste,Rita Bouvier

ISBN-10: 189583077X

ISBN-13: 9781895830774

Drawing on treaties, foreign legislation, the paintings of alternative Indigenous students, and particularly own studies, Marie Battiste files the character of Eurocentric types of schooling, and their devastating affects on Indigenous wisdom. Chronicling the unfavourable outcomes of compelled assimilation, racism inherent to colonial structures of schooling, and the failure of present academic rules for Aboriginal populations, Battiste proposes a brand new version of schooling, arguing the upkeep of Aboriginal wisdom is an Aboriginal correct. vital to this strategy is the repositioning of Indigenous humanities, sciences, and languages as very important fields of information, revitalizing an information procedure which contains either Indigenous and Eurocentric thinking.

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