Indigenous Education Language, Culture and Identity [Hardcover]

Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous educationlanguage, culture, and identity. It also offers a strategic comparative and international education policy statement on recent?shifts in indigenous education, and new approaches to explore, develop, and improve comparative education and policy research globally. Contributing authors examine several social justice issues related to indigenous education. In addition to case perspectives from 12 countries and global regions, the volume includes five conceptual chapters on topics that influence indigenous education, including policy debates, the media, the united nations, formal and informal education systems, and higher education.

Foreword.- Preface.- 1. Global Review of Indigenous Education: Issues of Identity, Culture, and Language. W. James Jacob, Sheng Yao Cheng, and Maureen K. Porter.- Section I: Thematic Issues on Indigenous Education.- 2. Policy Debates and Indigenous Education: The Trialectic of Language, Culture, and Identity. W. James Jacob, Jing Liu, and Che-Wei Lee.- 3. ICT and Indigenous Education: Emerging Challenges and Potential Solutions. Rebecca A. Clothey.- 4. Formal and Informal Indigenous Education. Terry Wotherspoon.- 5. Indigenous Higher Education. Duane W. Champagne.- 6. Indigenous Chinese Higher Education: John N. Hawkins.- Section II: Language.- 7. Strategies for Overcoming Linguistic Genocide: How to Avoid Macroaggressions and Microaggressions that Lead toward Indigenous Language Annihilation. W. James Jacob.- 8. Sustaining Indigenous Identity through Langul*