Freeing ourselves

by Bishop, Russell

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Full title :Freeing ourselves / Russell Bishop.

Summary

This book draws together many previously published articles and book chapters produced by the author over the past 20 years of work in the field of indigenous education. However, rather than just being a compilation of a series of papers, this book is a record of the development of an indigenous approach towards large-scale, theory-based education reform that is now being implemented, in two different forms, in almost half of the secondary schools in New Zealand. Fundamental to this theorising is the understanding, identified by Paulo Freire over forty years ago, that answers to the conditions oppressed peoples find themselves in is not to be found in the language or understandings of the oppressors. Rather, it is to be found in those of the oppressed. This realisation has been confirmed by the examples in this book. The first is seen where it is identified how researching in Maori contexts needs to be conducted dialogically within the world view and understandings of Maori people. Secondly, dialogue in its widest sense is crucial for developing a means whereby Maori students are able to participate successfully in education. The book details how researching the impact of colonization on his mother's Maori family enabled the author to develop a means of researching within indigenous, Maori contexts. It then details how the lessons learnt here appealed as being a means by which the marginalization of Maori students in mainstream, public school classrooms could be re-theorised, and how schools and education systems could be reorganised so as to support indigenous students to be successful learners.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):SensePublishers
Place of Publication:Rotterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xv, 135 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789460914157, 9460914152
DOI:10.1007/978-94-6091-415-7
oclc:ocn765336513
LC Classification:LC3715
Dewey Decimal:379.2/6

Freeing Ourselves -- DEDICATION -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: FREEING OURSELVES: An Indigenous Response to Neo-Colonial Dominance in Research, Classrooms, Schools and Education Systems -- The Current Context -- Kaupapa Maori Responses -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 1: FREEING OURSELVES FROM NEO-COLONIAL DOMINATION IN RESEARCH: A Kaupapa Maori Approach to Creating Knowledge1 -- MAORI PEOPLEâ€?S CONCERNS ABOUT RESEARCH: ISSUES OF POWER -- Insiders/Outsiders: Who can Conduct Research in Indigenous Settings? -- KAUPAPA MAORI RESEARCH

Examples of Culturally Responsive Research PracticesADDRESSING ISSUES OF SELF-DETERMINATION -- Whakawhanaungatanga as a Kaupapa Maori Research Approach -- Determining Benefits: Identifying Lines of Accountability using Maori Metaphor -- Spiral Discourse -- INITIATING RESEARCH USING MAORI METAPHOR: REJECTING EMPOWERMENT -- ADDRESSING ISSUES OF REPRESENTATION AND LEGITIMATION: A NARRATIVE APPROACH -- APPROACHES TO AUTHORITY AND VALIDITY -- Subjectivities/Objectivities -- EPILOGUE -- NOTES

CHAPTER 2: FREEING OURSELVES FROM NEO-COLONIAL DOMINATION IN PUBLIC SCHOOL CLASSROOMS1 PART A: KAUPAPA MAORI AS SCHOOLING -- Rangatiratanga: Relative Autonomy/Self-determin…

Subjects

Droit Education Education -- (general) EDUCATION -- Administration EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform Éducation -- Politique gouvernementale Education and state educational policy Indigenous peoples -- Education Kura tuarua Mātauranga onderwijs Onderwijs (algemeen) Onderwijsbeleid Sciences humaines Sciences sociales