Indigenous Philosophies and Critical Education

Contents: Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw: Foreword - George J. Sefa Dei: Introduction - George J. Sefa Dei: Revisiting the Question of the 'Indigenous' - Temitope Adefarakan: (Re) Conceptualizing 'Indigenous' from Anti-Colonial and Black Feminist Theoretical Perspectives: Living and Imagining Indigeneity Differently - Farah Shroff: We Are All One: Holistic Thought-Forms within Indigenous Societies Indigeneity and Holism - Marcelle Cross-Townsend: Indigenous Education and Indigenous Studies in the Australian Academy: Assimilationism, Critical Pedagogy, Dominant Culture Learners and Indigenous Knowledges - Ali Abdi: African Philosophies of Education: Deconstructing the Colonial and Reconstructing the Indigenous - Jefferey D. Anderson: Space, Time and Unified Knowledge : Following the Path of Vine Deloria, Jr. - Michael Davis: «I Live Somewhere Else but I've Never Left Here»: Indigenous Knowledge, History, and Place - Martin Cannon: Ruminations on Red Revitalization: Exploring Complexities of Identity, Difference and Nationhood in Indigenous Education - Patience Elabor-Idemudia: Identity, Representation, and Knowledge Production - Dennis Mcpherson: Indigeneity in Education: A By-product of Assimilation? - Serena Heckler/Paul Sillitoe: Education for Endogenous Development: Contrasting Perspectives from Amazonia and Arabia - Maria Shaa Tláa Williams: Neo-Colonial Melancholia: Alaska Native People, Education and Oil - Michael Marker: Sacred Mountains and Ivory Towers: Indigenous Pedagogies of Place and Invasions from Modernity - Lloyd L. Lee: Indigenous Knowledge in Transition: The Fundamental Laws of the Diné in an Era of Change and Modernity - Gregory Smith: Bringing the Experience of Indigenous People into Alaska Rural Systematic Initiative/Alaska Native Knowledge Network - Judy Iseke/Brennus BMJK: Learning Life Lessons from Indigenous Storytelling with Tom Mccallum - Pauline Chinn/Isabella Aiona Abbott/Michelle Kapana-Baird/Mahina Hou Ross/Lila Lelepali/Ka'umealani

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor of Sociology and Equity Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). In 2000 he co-edited Indigenous Knowledges in Global Contexts: Multiple Readings of Our World with Budd Hall and Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg. His most recent books include Teaching Africa: Towards Transgressive Pedagogy; Fanon and Education: Pedagogical Challenges, co-edited with Marlon Simmons (Peter Lang Publishing, 2010); Fanon and the Counterinsurgency of Education; and Learning to Succeed: Improving Educational Achievement for All. In July 2007, he succeeded the occupant of the stool (Odikro) of Asokorekuma and was installed as a traditional chief in Ghana. His stool name is Nana Sefa Atweneboah I, the Adomakwaahene of the town of Asokore, near Koforidua in the New Juaben Traditional Area of Ghana.