Indigenous Inclusive Education: Indigenous Schools Across Lands and Waters

• In Event: Intersectionality Within the Field of Inclusive and Special Education

Abstract

This presentation shares my preliminary research on the development of Indigenous Inclusive Education for Indigenous schools in both the U.S. and Aotearoa New Zealand. Indigenous schools are quickly developing culturally-sustaining curriculum and pedagogy as part of cultural revitalization movements across both nation-states. However, little research has been conducted to examine how Inclusive Education would be developed within Indigenous contexts rooted in Indigenous knowledge. What does Indigenous Inclusive Education look like? This papers examines both the challenges and potential of this newly developing field. I highlight how Indigenous people actively seek remedy through their own nurturing of Indigenous paradigms in learning to account for all our relations.

Author

• Sandra Yellowhorse, University of Auckland