Indigenous Teacher Education: Addressing the Failures of American Education

• In Event: Indigenous Teacher Education: Addressing the Failures of American Education

Abstract

The goals of American Education have always excluded goals of Indigenous nations and communities. However, critical Indigenous scholars have always centered teaching and research in Indigenous communities and have defined accountability to the community as essential to the work we do. This session surveys specific ways that Indigenous teacher educators have created space within teacher education programs to foreground Indigenous knowledges and Indigenous aims of self-determination and nation-building. Panelists will share their successes and struggles in these efforts, including how they create space for Indigenous STEM, confront colonial logics through Critical Indigenous Social Justice pedagogies, guide Hopi educators in developing curriculum that privileges Indigenous Hopi knowledge and values, and position a critical Indigenous consciousness as a weapon against settler colonialism.

Authors

• Michelle M. Jacob, University of Oregon

• Leilani Sabzalian, University of Oregon

• Valerie J. Shirley, The University of Arizona

• Jeremy Garcia, University of Arizona

• Hollie Anderson Kulago, Penn State University