The Bloomsbury Handbook of Indigenous Education and Research

Sandra Styres, Ryan Neepin

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350373884
• Topic: Pedagogía
• Subtopic: Educación inclusiva

There are more than 476 million Indigenous peoples living in over 90 countries across the world and most of the children and youth who make up that population globally are denied quality culturally appropriate education. This handbook provides an overview of the field of Indigenous education and its historical context. It covers the myriad of issues that Indigenous learners and educators face, from systemic racism and inequities to inaccuracies in historical re-tellings, to low retention and graduation rates. Written by Indigenous scholars and educators from around the world the book is divided in five sections covering: theoretical perspectives; research methods and ethics; debates on Indigenous sovereignty; two-spirit and Indigiqueer experiences; and pedagogical/practical approaches to teaching. The chapters map out the key themes and issues in Indigenous education including, land philosophies, colonialism, dispossession, borderlands, storytelling, and reconciliation.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Figures
• Contributors
• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part
• 1 Practising and Investigating Akinoomaage: Reflecting on Indigenous Ways of Knowing as Members of a First Nations Research Circle
• 2 Intercultural Model for Higher Education in Quintana Roo, Mexico: Thinking of Yucatec Maya Indigenous Students’ Ways of Learning and Constructing Knowledge
• 3 Boozhoo Balanyá/Greetings, Jaguar of Water!: An Indigenous-Centred Study Abroad in Iximulew/Guatemala
• 4 From Learning to Innovation in Yucatec Maya Food Systems: A Co-Creation Process
• 5 The Three Ethical Pillars of Indigenous Land-Based Research and Pedagogical Framework
• 6 Barriers Systemic and Self-Imposed: Understanding How Teachers Take Up Indigenous Perspectives in Their Professional Practice
• Part
• 7 Pedagogy of Possibilities: A Critical-Decolonial Framework for Re-Connecting in Academia
• 8 Androgynous Eroticism in Yucatec Maya Language and Literature
• 9 Curricular Transfigurations: (Re)Storying Queer Land Education
• 10 Skateboarding and Indigenous Education
• Part
• 11 Toward Intercultural Education – Ecuador as a Case Study
• 12 Nihtotamowin: Listening, Language and Land-Based Pedagogies
• 13 The Commitment to Educational Autonomy in Ecuador: The Experience of the Kichwa People of Sarayaku
• 14 Reflections and Projections: An Evolutionary Transformation of Zimbabwean Indigenous Education
• Part
• 15 Why Don’t We Know about Indigenous Science?: Key Concepts, Some Myths and Frequent Misconceptions of Indigenous Knowledge
• 16 Tipâcimôwin – My Story of Coming to Science
• 17 Dance Your Style in Teacher Education: Global Experiences of Teacher Education and Diversity
• 18 A River of Orange: Reconciliation, Relationality, Resistance and Retaliation
• 19 Pedagogies of Reconciliaction
• Index
• Imprint