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Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in EducationThe Role of Elders and Their Cultural Knowledges in Schools

Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in Education: The Role... [Among the many pathways for decolonizing colonial education is the incorporation of Elders’ cultural knowledges into schools. Indigenous Elders are holders and teachers of Indigenous knowledges and teachings about Land, culture, identity, language and community history, spirituality and the relationality of all living and non-living things including the universe. As knowledge custodians and storytellers, Elders pass knowledge from generation to generation through their teachings and carry the history and spiritual values of the community, bridging past, present, and future. Elders’ cultural knowledges are seen as having a critical role to play in schools in closing the educational gap and making education and schooling more relevant to Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other racialized students in their validation of Indigenous cultures within the school through an educational process that connects the learner with his/her culture, lived experience and environment.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Elders’ Cultural Knowledges and the Question of Black/ African Indigeneity in EducationThe Role of Elders and Their Cultural Knowledges in 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
127 –151
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-84201-7_6
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Abstract

[Among the many pathways for decolonizing colonial education is the incorporation of Elders’ cultural knowledges into schools. Indigenous Elders are holders and teachers of Indigenous knowledges and teachings about Land, culture, identity, language and community history, spirituality and the relationality of all living and non-living things including the universe. As knowledge custodians and storytellers, Elders pass knowledge from generation to generation through their teachings and carry the history and spiritual values of the community, bridging past, present, and future. Elders’ cultural knowledges are seen as having a critical role to play in schools in closing the educational gap and making education and schooling more relevant to Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and other racialized students in their validation of Indigenous cultures within the school through an educational process that connects the learner with his/her culture, lived experience and environment.]

Published: Jan 3, 2022

Keywords: African; Indigenous resurgence and revitalization; Knowledge custodians and storytellers; Indigenous curriculum; Embodied cultural knowledges; Schooling and education; Indigenous African education; Eurocentric Indigenous epistemology; Indigenous Land rights; Indigenous sovereignty

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