De-centering colonial schooling: Towards reforming indigenous education.
Published: 2007
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
ISBN-13: 9780494275115
Description: "De-Centering Colonial Schooling: Towards Reforming Indigenous Education" delineates the complexities surrounding Indigenous knowledge and education. It does this through examining an educational reform initiative that attempts to re-centre Indigenous knowledge in education from colonial schooling practices in Alaskan village communities. It (a) unravels the complexities of the term Indigenous knowledge through assessing the various modes of production that are a part of making up the social formation of Alaska Native villages; (b) examines the historical factors that are responsible for the subjugation of Indigenous knowledge in Alaskan Native village schools since 1784; and (c) explores the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative as an educational reform initiative that attempts to address the contemporary juncture of local needs and state educational standards in Alaskan village communities. Such an examination aspires to inform educational reform in the Canadian North and in international contexts.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2800.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 2007.

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