Indigenous Knowledge and Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance

by Malia Villegas

This book brings together essays that explore Indigenous ways of knowing and that consider how such knowledge can inform educational practices and institutions.

Indigenous Knowledge is resiliently local in character and thus poses a distinct contrast to the international, more impersonal system of knowledge prevalent in Western educational institutions. In the words of Mik'maq scholar Marie Battiste--a leading proponent of Indigenous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0916690482
• ISBN13: 9780916690489
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Harvard Education PR
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.6" x 9.9"