Author: Kathy A. KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Rekindling Indigenous Mind
Author: Kathy A. KellyRekindling Embers of the Soul
Author: Miranda LinPublisher: IAP
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This edited volume, Rekindling Embers of the Soul: An Examination of Spirituality Issues Relating to Teacher Education, fills the gap in scholarship by providing information about an understudied aspect of teacher education research. In an education environment that provides an increasing degree of standardization founded upon corporatized materialist values, the concept of spirituality and its importance in shaping the diverse identities of students and teachers becomes neglected. This volume offers ten chapters, which relate the spirituality to teacher education with regard to theory and research, instruction, and content. Both researchers and teachers will appreciate the insights that it offers.
Native Science
Author: Gregory CajetePublisher: Santa Fe, N.M. : Clear Light Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Cajete examines the multiple levels of meaning that inform Native astronomy, cosmology, psychology, agriculture, and the healing arts. Unlike the western scientific method, native thinking does not isolate an object or phenomenon in order to understand it, but perceives it in terms of relationship. An understanding of the relationships that bind together natural forces and all forms of life has been fundamental to the ability of indigenous peoples to live for millennia in spiritual and physical harmony with the land. It is clear that the first peoples offer perspectives that can help us work toward solutions at this time of global environmental crisis.
Rekindling the Sacred Fire
Author: Chantal FiolaPublisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN: 0887554806
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Why don’t more Métis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact Métis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chantal Fiola investigates the relationship between Red River Métis ancestry, Anishinaabe spirituality, and identity, bringing into focus the ongoing historical impacts of colonization upon Métis relationships with spirituality on the Canadian prairies. Using a methodology rooted in an Indigenous world view, Fiola interviews eighteen people with Métis ancestry, or an historic familial connection to the Red River Métis, who participate in Anishinaabe ceremonies, sharing stories about family history, self-identification, and their relationships with Aboriginal and Eurocanadian cultures and spiritualities.
Curious Minds
Author: Perry ZurnPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547147
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
An exhilarating, genre-bending exploration of curiosity’s powerful capacity to connect ideas and people. Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what’s left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other. Zurn and Bassett—identical twins who write that their book “represents the thought of one mind and two bodies”—harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. Traipsing across literatures of antiquity and medieval science, Victorian poetry and nature essays, as well as work by writers from a variety of marginalized communities, they trace a multitudinous curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity—the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy ones. Investigating what happens in a curious brain, they offer an accessible account of the network neuroscience of curiosity. And they sketch out a new kind of curiosity-centric and inclusive education that embraces everyone’s curiosity. The book performs the very curiosity that it describes, inviting readers to participate—to be curious with the book and not simply about it.
Remembering Our Ancestors
Author: Paula Noël HibbardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780493134819
Category : Decolonization
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The purpose of this dissertation is to provide for my community, and for those brought up in a western context, an account of a catalytic process for personal, cultural and global transformation. My intentions are: 1) to define and express decolonization through narrative; 2) to document my personal experience of decolonization and the Recovery of Indigenous Mind process; and 3) to narrate how Recovery of Indigenous Mind is decolonization and how this reveals the connection to Ancestors, a process important and necessary for healing and change. Section One writes the Research Design as the content of the dissertation, and why it is a process that reveals personal and cultural power, at the same time deepening and grounding decolonization. This section reveals relationship with Ancestors, and answers the research question: Why is it important for us to know our Ancestors? Section Two is written as four narrative vignettes that share experience through words that are personal and meaningful to myself as the storyteller. The vignettes assist in defining the Recovery of Indigenous Mind process in the form of narrative, so that those brought up in a western context can experience decolonization personally. Section Three is an entrance to the indigenous mind through decolonization. This section is a key to opening and understanding how the western mind operates through exploring the meaning of decolonization through narrative. This section is written as a guide for the entrance to the Recovery of Indigenous Mind process and to the indigenous worldview of a woman with Celtic ancestry. This dissertation is a foundation for my life and my own Recovery of Indigenous Mind process of healing through decolonization; it is also for those who hear the calling of their ancestors to initiate a healing process that is a remembering and a healing of who we are and from where we come, a process vital for the survival of the Earth and our future generations.
The Hindustan Review
Author: The Art of Protest
Author: T. V. ReedPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452958653
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
A second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and new digital and social media forms of cultural resistance The Art of Protest, first published in 2006, was hailed as an “essential” introduction to progressive social movements in the United States and praised for its “fluid writing style” and “well-informed and insightful” contribution (Choice Magazine). Now thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of T. V. Reed’s acclaimed work offers engaging accounts of ten key progressive movements in postwar America, from the African American struggle for civil rights beginning in the 1950s to Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter in the twenty-first century. Reed focuses on the artistic activities of these movements as a lively way to frame progressive social change and its cultural legacies: civil rights freedom songs, the street drama of the Black Panthers, revolutionary murals of the Chicano movement, poetry in women’s movements, the American Indian Movement’s use of film and video, anti-apartheid rock music, ACT UP’s visual art, digital arts in #Occupy, Black Lives Matter rap videos, and more. Through the kaleidoscopic lens of artistic expression, Reed reveals how activism profoundly shapes popular cultural forms. For students and scholars of social change and those seeking to counter reactionary efforts to turn back the clock on social equality and justice, the new edition of The Art of Protest will be both informative and inspiring.
Integration of a Mixed Race Indigenous Mind
Author: Pamela E. Dos RamosVoices of Indigenuity
Author: Michelle MontgomeryPublisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1646425103
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Voices of Indigenuity collects the voices of the Indigenous Speaker Series and multigenerational Indigenous peoples to introduce best practices for traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). In this edited collection, presenters from the series, both within and outside of the academy, examine the ways they have utilized TEK for inclusive teaching practices and in environmental justice efforts. Advocating for and providing an expansion of place-based Indigenized education that infuses Indigenous epistemologies for student success in both K–12 and higher education curricula, these essays explore topics such as land fragmentation, remote sensing, and outreach through the lens of TEK, demonstrating methods of fusing learning with Indigenous knowledge (IK). Contributors emphasize the need to increase the perspectives of IK within institutionalized knowledge beyond being co-opted into non-Indigenous frameworks that may be fundamentally different from Indigenous ways of thinking. Decolonizing current harmful pedagogical curricula and research training about the natural world through an Indigenous- guided approach is an essential first step to rebuilding a healthy relationship with our environment while acknowledging that all relationships come with an ethical responsibility. Voices of Indigenuity captures the complexities of exploring the contextu- alized meanings for why TEK should be integrated into Western environmental science processes and frameworks while rooted in Indigenous studies programs.