Narrative Life Democratic Curriculum and Indigenous Learning /

• Main Author: Hooley, Neil (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 7
• Subjects: Education.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.

Written with educational practitioners in mind and set in a framework of progressive epistemology and pedagogy, this work tackles issues of global concern. It seeks to answer the question of how we structure education for the world’s 370 million indigenous people so as to promote intercultural under...

Table of Contents:

• Context
• Global Trends and Indigenous Challenges
• Building Democracy
• Confronting Whiteness
• Education, Being and Identity
• Community
• Indigenous Education
• Self-Determination
• Culture and Environment
• National and International Insights
• Commitment
• Indigenous Literacy and Epistemology
• Two-Way Inquiry Learning
• Participatory Narrative Inquiry
• Exemplars of Indigenous Knowledge and Practice
• Change
• Ambiguity and Indigenomathematics
• Policy, Practice and Pedagogy
• Education as Democratic Public Sphere.