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ERIC Number: EJ616908
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0010-4086
Reclaiming Education: Knowledge Practices and Indigenous Communities. Essay Review.
McGovern, Seana M.
Comparative Education Review, v44 n4 p523-29 Nov 2000
Reviews four books that explain modern schooling's irrelevance for many indigenous communities and that represent indigenous knowledge practices with respect: "What Is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy"; "Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures"; "Intercultural Education and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in the Peruvian Amazon"; and "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples." (SV)
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Colonialism, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Epistemology, Higher Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Nonformal Education
Publication Type: Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Note: Reviews "What Is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy" (Ladislaus M. Semali, Joe L. Kincheloe, editors); "Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures" (Madhu Suri Prakash, Gustavo Esteva); "Intercultural Education and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in the Peruvian Amazon" (Sheila Aikman); and "Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples" (Linda Tuhiwai Smith).