When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide
When Indigenous and Modern Education Collide
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当本土教育与现代教育碰撞时
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4020-9739-3_4
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发表时间:
2007
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Leisy T. Wyman
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作者:
Alberto Arenas;Iliana Reyes;Leisy T. Wyman
There are an estimated 300 million indigenous people worldwide, roughly 5% of the world’s population (UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2004). Despite this significant presence, national schooling systems have ignored, minimized, or ridiculed their histories pre- and post-Western contact, as well as their cultural contributions toward social and environmental sustainability. Only since the 1960s have ministries of education around the world, regional entities, and community-based groups set up education programs that seek to rescue and protect the values, practices, languages, and knowledge systems of indigenous groups, including their relationship to local ecosystems; social relationships within each group; subsistence-based production, such as agricultural, pastoral, and hunting and gathering techniques; and language, art, games and other cultural aspects (e.g., Barnach-Calbo Martinez, 1997; Hernandez, 2003; May, 1999; May and Aikman, 2003; Neil, 2000). These educational efforts have sought to recover indigenous peoples’ own history and identity to help them resist the pressure to assimilate into the surrounding dominant societies.