Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in the Americas - Towards More Balanced Inclusive Curricular Representations Classroom

This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions.

List of contents

Introduction - Historical and Living Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in Contention: Why This Edited Volume? 1. Revitalizing Indigenous Belief Systems: Implications for Curriculum 2. ReStorying Matricultures 3. Indigenous Epistemic Interventions for State Curriculum: Moving Beyond the Abrahamic Covenant of Manifest Destiny 4. Morality and Indigenous Knowledge: Exploring Canadian Educational Contexts 5. Curricula or Local Relationships and Knowledge: Which Is the Chicken and Which the Egg? 6. History Education at the Anishinaabeg Serpent Mounds 7. Eurocentric Critiques of Eurocentricism: The Portrayal of Taíno Religious Beliefs in Social Studies and History Textbooks in Puerto Rico 8. Religion and Regionalism: Constructing the Ideal Caribbean Person Through Abrahamic and Non-Abrahamic Religious Education in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) 9. Decolonial Restorying: Interrupting Christian Coloniality of Relations in Canada 10. Conclusion - Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and More Holistic Analytical Frameworks

About the author

Ehaab D. Abdou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.
Theodore G. Zervas is Professor in the School of Education at North Park University, USA.

Summary

This book brings attention to the understudied and often overlooked question of how curricula and classroom practices might inadvertently reproduce exclusionary discourses and narratives that omit or negate particular cultures, histories, and wisdom traditions.

Product details

• Authors: Ehaab Zervas Abdou
• Assisted by: Ehaab Abdou (Editor), Theodore Zervas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032766744
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3276674-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Studies in Curriculum Theory Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Curricula, Religion: general, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Teaching of a specific subject, Curriculum planning & development, Tribal religions, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal