Many public charter schools in the state of Hawaii are explicitly religious. For more than two decades, students at Hawaiian-focused schools have offered chants and prayers to the pantheon of gods who rule over skies, seas, and earth, including to the volcanic god, Pelehonuamea ("she who shapes the sacred land"), popularly known as Madam…

This article aims to analyze indigenous socio-educational knowledge to build an intercultural knowledge dialogue in the school curriculum, using educational experience from a Mapuche context in Chile. Based on the knowledge of teachers, indigenous scholars, and parents, the article outlines three ways to guide the construction of a knowledge…

Indigenous-language immersion (ILI) is a form of schooling where all, or nearly all, classroom instruction in every subject area is conducted in an Indigenous language. This dissertation comprises three case study comparisons of neighboring pairs of ILI and English-medium school programs. The first case study examines two elementary schools in the…