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Johnstone, Marjorie; Lee, Eunjung – Whiteness and Education, 2022
Using Canada as a case study, we historically trace the imperial formation of whiteness supremacy in education from the colonial era to the current internationalisation of education in Western nations. In a global knowledge economy, knowledge has replaced resource extraction as a significant source of nation building. We argue that the…
Descriptors: Racism, Educational History, Colonialism, Knowledge Economy
Pratt, Yvonne Poitras – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
Exploring the relationship between the role of education and Indigenous survival, "Digital Storytelling in Indigenous Education" is an ethnographic exploration of how digital storytelling can be part of a broader project of decolonization of individuals, their families, and communities. By recounting how a remote Indigenous (Métis)…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Canada Natives, American Indian Education, American Indian Culture
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Neeganagwedgin, Erica – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2020
This paper privileges the voices of Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Holders. Since time immemorial, Indigenous Elders, whether in a Canadian or global context, have been at the core of teaching and learning and have had the responsibility of transferring knowledge. However, their role in the transmission of culture has been undermined by the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Canada Natives, Transformative Learning, Older Adults
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Corbett, Michael – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2021
This article was developed from Michael Corbett's 2020 Rural Education Special Interest Group (SIG) Career Achievement Award Lecture. There has been an encouraging influx of new work, both in the United States and in other anglophone settler societies, as well as in Europe in the emerging field of rural education, influenced by developments in…
Descriptors: Rural Education, Educational History, Educational Change, Urban Schools
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Kits, Gerda J. – International Journal of Christianity & Education, 2019
Indigenous scholars argue that reconciliation requires educators to make space for Indigenous perspectives in the curriculum. This article agrees, arguing that Christians who are committed to Wolterstorff's (2004) concept of "educating for shalom" must work towards decolonization of the educational system. Eurocentrism in the current…
Descriptors: Christianity, Indigenous Knowledge, Ethnocentrism, Postcolonialism
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Almeida, Shana; Kumalo, Siseko H. – Education as Change, 2018
The ways in which Africanisation and decolonisation in the South African academy have been framed and carried out have been called into question over the past several years, most notably in relation to modes of silencing and epistemic negation, which have been explicitly challenged through the student actions. In a similar vein, Canada's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Land Settlement, Indigenous Knowledge