Coming Full Circle: White, Euro-Canadian Teachers’ Positioning, Understanding, Doing, Honouring, and Knowing in School-Based Indigenous Education

作者: Brooke Madden

DOI: 10.37119/OJS2014.V20I1.153

关键词: Traditional knowledgeIndigenous educationCultural diversityNarrativeNarrative inquiryTeaching methodPedagogyTeacher educationResearch questionSociology

摘要: This narrative study contributes to the field of school-based Indigenous education by exploring central research question: What are decolonizing processes practicing teachers involved in a provincially funded initiative improve schooling for urban Aboriginal students? Excerpts from teachers’ narratives organized using Anishinaabe medicine wheel, anchoring exploration following five directions and associated processes: teachings centre/positioning, east/honouring, south/understanding, west/doing, north/knowing. paper concludes with discussion how White, Euro-Canadian decolonization informs fields education, teacher inquiry.

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