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Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in EducationMaking the Case for the Incorporation of African Indigenous Elders and their Cultural Knowledges into Schools

Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education: Making... [The integration of Indigenous perspectives into schools has been viewed as a positive influence for all learners and specifically works to make education and schooling more relevant to Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other racialized students. Bringing Elders into schools and incorporating their cultural knowledges into the schooling experience ensures a more culturally relevant and equitable educational experience for Indigenous and other racialized learners. Indigenous Elders being cultural knowledge holders and custodians make the learning environment more welcoming and offer a more inclusive and enriching alternative to hegemonic Eurocentric schooling, allowing for the creation of decolonized social and academic learning spaces for racialized learners. The presence of Indigenous Elders in schools validates the Indigenous body and Indigenous epistemologies as sites of knowing and knowledge production.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in EducationMaking the Case for the Incorporation of African Indigenous Elders and their Cultural Knowledges into Schools

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-84200-0
Pages
153 –174
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84201-7_7
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Abstract

[The integration of Indigenous perspectives into schools has been viewed as a positive influence for all learners and specifically works to make education and schooling more relevant to Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other racialized students. Bringing Elders into schools and incorporating their cultural knowledges into the schooling experience ensures a more culturally relevant and equitable educational experience for Indigenous and other racialized learners. Indigenous Elders being cultural knowledge holders and custodians make the learning environment more welcoming and offer a more inclusive and enriching alternative to hegemonic Eurocentric schooling, allowing for the creation of decolonized social and academic learning spaces for racialized learners. The presence of Indigenous Elders in schools validates the Indigenous body and Indigenous epistemologies as sites of knowing and knowledge production.]

Published: Jan 3, 2022

Keywords: Culture; Indigenous epistemology; Epistemological racism; Social difference; Knowledge synthesis; Cognitive imperialism; Globalization; Multi-logicality; Achievement gap; Meritocracy; Colonial logic

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