Indigenous Knowledge Studies and the Next Generation: Pedagogical Possibilites for Anti-Colonial Education

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  • George J. Sefa Dei University of Toronto

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https://doi.org/10.1375/S1326011100000326

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This paper raises issues pertaining to our collective responsibilities in nurturing the next generation of Indigenous scholars. It highlights aspects of current theorising of Indigenity, namely, the search for “epistemological equity” through reclamation of identity, knowledge and politics of embodiment; and discusses how knowledge about our own existence, realities and identities can help produce a form of knowing legitimate in its own right and able to contest other ways of knowing. The paper concludes with what I see as some of the pedagogical possibilities of anti-colonial education using the Indigenous framework.

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2008-07-01

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Dei, G. J. S. (2008). Indigenous Knowledge Studies and the Next Generation: Pedagogical Possibilites for Anti-Colonial Education. The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 37(S1), 5–13. https://doi.org/10.1375/S1326011100000326

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