1st Edition

Indigenous Voices and Decolonising Lifelong Education

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Indigenousness is about long-term occupancy of a place and the knowledge and consciousness that arises from place. In this edited volume, global Indigenous voices engage in truth-telling about 500+ years of colonisation, including loss of population, language, culture, spirituality, and land. Education has been central in facilitating colonialism. To decolonize lifelong education and learning is... Read more

Introduction to Indigenous Voices and Decolonising Lifelong Education
Apooyak’ii, Tiffany Hind Bull- Prete and Elizabeth A. Lange

1. Research on Indigenous Knowledge Systems: The Search for Cognitive Justice
Catherine Odora Hoppers

2. Decolonizing Lifelong Education: Learning from J. Krishnamurti
Mousumi Mukherjee and Sandal Agrawal

3. Intergenerational Learning of Traditional Knowledge through Informal Education: The Mongolian Context
Batchuluun Yembuu 

4. Auto-decolonisation: Lifelong Education for Decolonisation
Satoru Nakagawa

5. Integrating Traditional Educational Practices of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy) into a Post-Secondary Context
Apooyak’ii, Tiffany Hind Bull- Prete

6. Resisting Symbolic Violence: Métis Community Engagement in Lifelong Learning
Yvonne Poitras Pratt

7. It's in the Blood: Theory and Praxis of Lifelong Indigenous Education
Cora Weber-Pillwax

8. From Fear to Hope: Learning from BIPOC in Hard Times — COVID-19, Climate Collapse & Racial Violence
Dana Stuchul, Madhu Suri Prakash and Gustavo Esteva

Biography

Apooyak’ii, Tiffany Hind Bull-Prete is a member of the Kainai (Blood Tribe) of the Siksikaitsitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy), located in the Treaty 7 area, Canada. She is a Canadian Research Chair Tier II in Indigenous resiliency, as well as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. Dr. Hind Bull-Prete’s background is in educational policy studies, specialising in Indigenous Peoples education. Her programme of work is comprised of implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action on the Blood Reserve.

Elizabeth A. Lange is a Visiting Graduate Professor at Athabasca University, Canada and Honorary and Adjunct Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Futures of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Of Germanic heritage, she was born on Treaty 6 on largely Plains Cree territory in Canada and has served three Canadian universities as an adult and lifelong education specialist. She now has the privilege of residing on Coast Salish and Nuu-Chah-Nulth Traditional territory on Vancouver Island. She can be found at https://elizabethlange.ca. Her latest book can be found at https://www.routledge.com/Transformative-Sustainability-Education-Reimagining-Our-Future/Lange/p/book/9780367747060.