Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education: The Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model

by Cornel Pewewardy (Editor), James A. Banks (Series Editor), Tiffany S. Lee (Foreword)

This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization. Drawing from decades of collaboration with teachers and school leaders serving Indigenous children and communities, this volume will help educators better support the development of their students’ critical thinking skills. Representing a holistic balance, the text is organized in four Birth–Grade 12 and Community Education, Teacher Education, Higher Education, and Educational Leadership. Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education centers the needs of teachers, children, families, and communities that are currently engaged in public education and who deserve an improved experience today, while also committing to more positive Indigenous futurities. Book

240 pages, Paperback

Published April 1, 2022

Reviews

[Terry Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is such a powerful and complex text that centers indigenous ways of knowing and being in educations from birth to death. There is a lot that is unfamiliar to me and a lot that resonated. For anyone who is attempting to decolonize their minds, their curriculum, their systems, this is a must read. It both affirmed the path I have committed to and challenged me about how far I still have to go on that path and in my work. This isn’t anything like your average academic text, as it might seem fragmented with different styles and focuses of the various contributors, but it is stronger because of that. Alex RedCorn has a beautiful essay in this volume about Osage ribbon work and the weaving of all the complexities of indigeneity and navigating a colonized world with colonized institutions, and that ribbon work was done here with this book. Huge shout out to Chelsea Craig who taught us in Danforth 34 so much, and contributed her wisdom to this text as well.