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Red pedagogy : Native American social and political thought / Sandy Grande.

Grande, Sandy, 1964- (Author).

Summary:

Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought is a groundbreaking text that explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the sociopolitical landscape of American Indian education. Sandy Grande asserts that, with few exceptions, the matters of Indigenous people and Indian education have been either largely ignored or indiscriminately absorbed within critical theories of education. Furthermore, American Indian scholars and educators have largely resisted engagement with critical educational theory, tending to concentrate instead on the production of historical monographs, ethnographic studies, tribally centered curricula, and site-based research. Such a focus stems from the fact that most American Indian scholars feel compelled to address the socioeconomic urgencies of their own communities, against which engagement in abstract theory appears to be a luxury of the academic elite. While Grande acknowledges the dire need for practical community-based research, she maintains that the global encroachment on Indigenous lands, resources, cultures, and communities points to the equally urgent need to develop transcendent theories of decolonization and to build broad-based coalitions

Record details

ISBN: 0742518299
ISBN: 0742518280 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742518285 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0742518299 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780742518292 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xii, 193 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Lanham, Maryland. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192).

Formatted Contents Note:

Mapping the terrain of struggle : from genocide, colonization, and resistance to Red power and Red pedagogy -- Competing moral visions : at the crossroads of democracy and sovereignty -- Red land, white power -- American Indian geographies of identity and power -- Whitestream feminism and the colonialist project : toward a theory of indigenísta -- Better Red than dead : toward a nation-peoples and a peoples nation.