Description
Book SynopsisAn inspirational account of how a group of pre-service teachers, working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers in British Columbia, developed an indigenist approach to education that can be applied in a wide variety of classrooms.
Trade ReviewThis book is essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and anyone interested in indigenous education, social justice, and transformative learning. It also provides important insights and guidance to educational policymakers… [Learning and Teaching Together] is highly recommended.
-- Jean-Paul Restoule, Ontatrio Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto * Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Volume 109, Number 2 *
… Indigenous educators and allies will find this text inspirational, hopeful, and useful.
-- Alma M. O. Trinidad, School of Social Work, Portland State University * Great Plains Research *
Teachers in British Columbia and throughout Canada who struggle with how to enact curriculum changes that incorporate Indigenous knowledge, history, and identity will find this book illuminating … in spite of the seemingly overwhelming challenges in making a space for Indigenous thought and experience, it can and must be done. The transformation has been happening and is continuing.
-- Michael Marker * BC Studies, no. 196, Winter 2017/18 *
Table of ContentsForeword / Greg Cajete
SENĆOŦEN Pronunciation and Glossary
Introduction: A Welcoming
The Moons of XAXE SIÁM SILA
1 Orienting to Place and Pedagogical Purpose
2 Opening Oneself to Indigenous Ways of Being-Knowing-Doing
3 Rethinking Learner-Teacher Relationships
4 Invoking Good Intention and Conscious Action
5 Focusing on How and Why We Teach
6 Trusting Learners and Remembering Wholeness
7 Coming Together in Safe Enough Spaces
8 Continuing Reflection towards Sustainability
9 Preparing Self and Community for Dispositional Change
10 Indigenizing Practice amid Classroom Challenges
11 Re-envisioning (Teacher) Education
12 Touchstones for Future Teaching
References; Index
