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Download PDF by W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, Maureen K. Porter: Indigenous Education: Language, Culture and Identity

By W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, Maureen K. Porter

ISBN-10: 9401793549

ISBN-13: 9789401793544

ISBN-10: 9401793557

ISBN-13: 9789401793551

Indigenous schooling is a compilation of conceptual chapters and nationwide case reports that incorporates empirical examine in line with a sequence of knowledge assortment equipment. The ebook offers up to date scholarly study on worldwide traits on 3 problems with paramount significance with indigenous education—language, tradition, and identification. It additionally deals a strategic comparative and foreign schooling coverage assertion on fresh shifts in indigenous schooling, and new techniques to discover, improve, and increase comparative schooling and coverage study globally. Contributing authors research numerous social justice matters relating to indigenous schooling. as well as case views from 12 nations and international areas, the amount comprises 5 conceptual chapters on issues that impact indigenous schooling, together with coverage debates, the media, the united countries, formal and casual schooling platforms, and better education.

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While most informal indigenous learning activities tend to be focused on capacity building and cultural expression, Wotherspoon also recognizes that alternative education programs help focus on such things as building relationships, skills development, establishing genealogical linkages, and strengthening individual spirituality. Indigenous education to Wotherspoon—whether formal or informal—is a holistic and lifelong process that integrates all aspects of the human learning experience related to the physical, spiritual, social, and natural worlds.

In Chap. 4, Terry Wotherspoon highlights the need for more scholarship on indigenous peoples’ informal learning and education experiences and programs. He views learning as a continuum, where formal education and learning are only part of the education process we participate in each day and throughout life. Indigenous 1 Global Review of Indigenous Education: Issues of Identity, Culture, and Language 23 knowledges are predominantly transmitted through many different media, rather than just through the formal education system.

Extending this trend into cyberspace, indigenous groups fight for cultural survival, formal recognition, and free exercise of their internationally, if not locally, recognized 1 Global Review of Indigenous Education: Issues of Identity, Culture, and Language 17 human rights (Reinke 2004). These new forms of alliance, outreach, and literacy are transforming what it means to be indigenous in Latin America and the Caribbean. Brazilian Paulo Freire (1970) has reshaped world educational discourse with his concern for conscientization via education built around the actual lived needs of people rather than a standardized or externally-imposed curriculum.

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