Cultivating Indigenous educational sovereignty
through learning and design
Cultural Praxis Coffee Hour. April 3rd-
8am Pacific Standard Time
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The February Coffee hour will be devoted to discussion of two papers, one by each of our guest authors: Megan Bang, Professor of Learning Sciences, at Northwestern University, and Meixi, Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, University of Minnesota.
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Megan and Ananda Marin’s paper discusses their “work in community-based design research and studies of everyday parent–child interactions, we begin to describe emergent structural principles that may desettle normative time-space and nature–culture relations. In addition, we describe specific practices and pedagogical forms that expand views of human and non-human agency, as well as present and possible
socio-ecological futures.”
Meixi and her colleagues write about their “work in communities to redesign approaches to learning in schools in ways that sustain and promote life. Drawing on a case study of an learning movement that grew from Mexico to an urban Indigenous school in Thailand, we show how educators might respond to the specific needs within their communities, repair the fracturing of humans from nature, and orient us to life-giving forms of activity that are beneficial beyond our current crises and into the future.”
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Perhaps Megan and/or Meixi could join our session on ‘adolescence’ on Tuesday April 11th
at 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Savings Time. Other participants in their Coffee Hour on Indigenous education could also help us, as we consider how adolescence has changed in the last 100 years (since it was first introduced as a transitional stage of development in the early 20th century by the American psychologist G.S. Hall). And you can correct me on this if I am historically inaccurate- but it would seem that prior to this there was no adolescent stage between childhood and adulthood – only puberty rites. How has this ‘colonialized’ stage of development affected indigenous children’s transition to adulthood?
Contact Francine Smolucha to get the ZOOM link to attend the session on April 11:
lsmolucha@hotmail.com
Hall, incidentally, was a rabid eugenicist.
Another interesting Coffee Hour that ties in with our seminar on Imagination & Creativity.
I was wondering about the rediscovery of cultural metaphors – a recent focus in our seminar. Also the presentation that I gave on Framing introduced the concept of Frame Alignment. That would include ways of surviving in a dominant culture without erasure of your original ethnic culture – such as being bilingual in the dominant language for certain practical activities (economic, legal) and maintaining one’s original ethnic language for social cohesion. I am going to coin a new term “Frame Obliteration” which would be another way of looking at ethnocide or cultural erasure.
My great grandmother ran an underground schoolhouse on her farm outside Vilnius,
teaching children the Polish language (along with Polish history) when the penalty for doing so was death (as decreed by the Czar). For 150 years there was no Poland, it had been
partitioned among the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians. And yet the Polish people managed to become a nation-state.
It seems to me that European colonialism is actually a recent historical episode of Imperialism. Since at least 3,500 B.C.E. dominant groups have subjugated other ethnicities. Even now technocracies are emerging as the new superpowers and those who do not know computer languages are the economically disadvantaged. Bilingualism (multilingualism) will be the norm in a global society (versatility in the dominant languages such as English, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish,or a tribal language – there is the new dominant global language of computer software design and use).
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So sorry I missed the session. Looking forward to watching the recording.
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That is a very cumbersome procedure. I will see if it can be worked around. Try posting a comment here, Peter, and lets see if a conversation can be started.
I’m still trying to get a bead on who is indigenous, and who is not. It seems that being from outside the European colonial world, especially one who has been colonized, qualifies a people for indigeneity. But then, what of these people? are they indigenous? The Sámi (/ˈsɑːmi/ SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. The region of Sápmi was formerly known as Lapland, and the Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by the Sámi, who prefer the area’s name in their own languages, e.g. Northern Sámi Sápmi.[8][9] Their traditional languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.
As I understand contemporary usage, indigenous is taken to be equivalent to “first people
to inhabit this land, or first nations people as the Canadians say. From what I know of the history of North America, it is actually possible to talk about the first inhabitants and their spread east and southward. For Europe the number of different peoples who came and went and intermarried and killed each other and etc in many places makes it seem make the designation of one group, say, Magyars as the first and only.
The Sami seem like a first nations people. Aren’t they treated as such by the three modern
powers who sit on their territory. And for a nightmare, consider the middle east!
to be sure, there was a lot of intertribal warfare among people on what we now call the N. American continent, and well south. And globally, there have been many migrations that, I think, cloud the idea that someone was there first.
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