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Publication Date: 2010
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The Stories Are the People and the Land: Three Educators Respond to Environmental Teachings in Indigenous Children's Literature
Korteweg, Lisa; Gonzalez, Ismel; Guillet, Jojo
Environmental Education Research, v16 n3-4 p331-350 2010
This article explores how Indigenous Canadian children's literature might challenge adult and child readers to consider different meanings and worldviews of the environment as a land-based value system. As three teacher educators from elementary and university classrooms, we use reader-response theory to explore a collection of rich alternative narratives of Indigenous land-based knowledge systems available in the work of Indigenous authors and illustrators of children's literature. Our study considers how Indigenous picture books might serve to decolonize environmental consciousness through offering accessible and immersive Indigenous stories of the land. As we respond to and analyze these picture books, we work from a prior commitment to decolonization as a critical self-reflexive political process in which one's colonized beliefs are explicitly pinpointed, challenged and countered by Indigenous worldviews and perspectives.
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Canadian Literature, Picture Books, Values, Teacher Educators, Indigenous Populations, World Views, Reader Response, Indigenous Knowledge, College Faculty, Elementary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries
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Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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