Indian Education for All - Decolonizing Indigenous Education in Public Schools

"Indian Education for All explains why teachers and schools need to privilege Indigenous knowledge and explicitly integrate decolonization concepts into learning and teaching to address the academic gaps in Native education. The aim of the book is to help teacher educators, school administrators, and policy-makers engage in productive and authentic conversations with tribal communities about what Indigenous education reform should entail"--

About the author

John P. Hopkins is associate dean of students, director of the Diversity and Equity Center, and senior instructor of society and social justice at Saint Martin's University.

Summary

Offers a critique of recent efforts to reform Indigenous education in public schools. John Hopkins centres his critique on Montana State's innovative and bold multicultural education policy called Indian Education for All, and demonstrates why Indigenous education reforms must decolonize the curriculum and pedagogy.

Product details

• Authors: John P Hopkins, John P. Hopkins
• Assisted by: James A Banks (Editor), James A. Banks (Editor)
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9780807764596
• ISBN: 978-0-8077-6459-6
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Multicultural Education; Multicultural Education Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system