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Teaching Indigenous Students - Honoring Place, Community, and Culture (Paperback)
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Teaching Indigenous Students - Honoring Place, Community, and Culture (Paperback)
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Indigenous students learn and retain more when teachers value the
language and culture of the students' community and incorporate
them into the curriculum. This is a principle enshrined in the UN
Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007) and borne
out both by the successes of Indigenous-language immersion schools
and by the failures of past assimilationist practices and the
recent English-only policies of the No Child Left Behind Act in the
United States. Teaching Indigenous Students puts culturally based
education squarely into practice. The volume, edited and with an
introduction by leading American Indian education scholar Jon
Reyhner, brings together new and dynamic research from established
and emerging voices in the field of American Indian and Indigenous
education. All of the contributions show how the quality of
education for Indigenous students can be improved through the
promotion of culturally and linguistically appropriate schooling.
Grounded in place, community, and culture, the approaches set out
in this volume reflect the firsthand experiences of teachers and
students in interacting not just with texts and one another, but
also with the local community and environment. The authors address
the specifics of teaching the full range of subjects - from
learning literacy using culturally meaningful texts to
inquiry-based science curricula, and from math instruction that
incorporates real-world experience to social studies that blend
oral history and local culture with national and world history.
Teaching Indigenous Students also emphasizes the importance of art,
music, and physical education, both traditional and modern, in
producing well-rounded human beings and helping students establish
their identity as twenty-first-century Indigenous peoples.
Surveying the work of Indigenous-language immersion schools around
the world, this volume also holds out hope for the revitalization
of Indigenous languages and traditional cultural values.
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