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Teaching Truly A Curriculum to Indigenize Mainstream Education

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ISBN-10: 1433122480

ISBN-13: 9781433122484

Edition: 2013

Authors: Priya Parmar, Shirley R. Steinberg, Donald Trent Jacobs, Greg Cajete, R. Michael Fisher

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For the first time in educational publishing, Teaching Truly offers K-16 teachers course-specific guidelines for indigenizing mainstream education. The goal is to facilitate greater educational integrity and relevance in the classroom now, without waiting for more reforms to policy, standards or curricula in general. Incorporating reality-based teaching common in traditional Indigenous learning cultures, each chapter first exposes educational hegemony, including that existing within the new common core standards, and then offers alternative, time-tested perspectives and exercises to counter and/or counter-balance such hegemony. Addressing eight common subject areas, the material can be…    
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Book details

List price: $51.30
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
Publication date: 4/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 282
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144

A former dramaturg and freelance editor, Priya Parmar was educated at Mount Holyoke College, The University of Oxford, and The University of Edinburgh. She is the author of Exit the Actress and Vanessa and Her Sister.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The West (The Color Black) Introspection
Anti-Indianism in Education and in the Academe
Historical Trauma and Its Prevention in the Classroom
The North (The Color Red) Wisdom
The STAR (Service To All relations) Navajo School Model
Indigenous Teaching and Learning Pathways
The East (The Color Yellow) Energy and Action
Health
Music
English Language Arts
United States History
Mathematics
Economics
Science
Geography
The South (The Color White) Spiritual and Emotional Awareness
From Fear to Fearlessness (Religion/Psychology and Spirituality)
References
About the Author