Indigenizing Education: Transformative Research, Theories, and Praxis
brings various scholars, educators, and community voices together in
ways that reimagines and recenters learning processes that embody
Indigenous education rooted in critical Indigenous theories and
pedagogies. The contributing scholar-educators speak to the resilience
and strength embedded in Indigenous knowledges and highlight the
intersection between research, theories, and praxis in Indigenous
education. Each of the contributors share ways they engaged in
transformative praxis by activating a critical Indigenous consciousness
with diverse Indigenous youth, educators, families, and community
members. The authors provide pathways to reconceptualize and sustain
goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy with and for
Indigenous peoples as they enact sovereignty, self-education, and Native
nation-building.
The chapters are organized across four sections, entitled Indigenizing
Curriculum and Pedagogy, Revitalizing and Sustaining Indigenous
Languages, Engaging Families and Communities in Indigenous Education,
and Indigenizing Teaching and Teacher Education. Across the chapters,
you will observe dialogues between the scholar-educators as they enacted
various theories, shared stories, indigenized various curriculum and
teaching practices, and reflected on the process of engaging in critical
dialogues that generates a (re)new(ed) spirit of hope and commitment to
intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. The book makes significant
contributions to the fields of critical Indigenous studies, critical and
culturally sustaining pedagogy, and decolonization.
