Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in the Americas: Towards More Balanced and Inclusive Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices [Hardcover]

Introduction  Historical and Living Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in Contention: Why This Edited Volume?? 1.?Revitalizing Indigenous Belief Systems: Implications for Curriculum? 2.?ReStorying Matricultures? 3.?Indigenous Epistemic Interventions for State Curriculum: Moving Beyond the Abrahamic Covenant of Manifest Destiny? 4.?Morality and Indigenous Knowledge: Exploring Canadian Educational Contexts? 5.?Curricula or Local Relationships and Knowledge: Which Is the Chicken and Which the Egg?? 6.?History Education at the Anishinaabeg Serpent Mounds? 7.?Eurocentric Critiques of Eurocentricism: The Portrayal of Ta?no Religious Beliefs in Social Studies and History Textbooks in Puerto Rico? 8.?Religion and Regionalism: Constructing the Ideal Caribbean Person Through Abrahamic and Non-Abrahamic Religious Education in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM)? 9.?Decolonial Restorying: Interrupting Christian Coloniality of Relations in Canada? 10.?Conclusion  Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and More Holistic Analytical Frameworks?

Ancient and Indigenous Wisdom Traditions in the Americas: Towards More Balanced Curricular Representations and Classroom Practices offers a timely vision of pluriversalism. The editors approach, long overdue, will be welcomed given the systematic sidelining of non-Abrahamic sources of knowledge and practice (notably, Indigenous ones) and the light such knowledges can shed on ecological, socio-economic, political and educational crises. Each chapter critically engages with a wisdom traditions epistemic groundings, its misrepresentation (especially in textbooks), and alternatives. Abdou and Zervas volume will be invaluable in prompting scholars, educational leaders, teachers and students to confront and redress curricular omissions, working collectively towards actualizing a more rightful balance. - Dr. Teresa Strong-Wilson, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada