Decolonising through ReCountrying in teacher education

Sweetgrass is thus an important ceremonial plant and braiding Sweetgrass is working with the ‘flowing hair of Mother Earth …. showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and wellbeing, in gratitude for all she has given us’ (p. 5). [...]as teachers and educators we can braid the three...

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Published in:Curriculum perspectives 2024-04, Vol.44 (1), p.77-81
Main Authors: Spillman, David, Wilson, Benjamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior Standards
Communication
Culture
Curriculum Studies
Decolonization
Education
Indigenous Knowledge
Individual Needs
Knowledge sharing
Learning
Learning Processes
Males
Mothers
Native peoples
Personality
Point and Counterpoint
Social norms
Society
Teacher education
Teacher Improvement
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Summary:Sweetgrass is thus an important ceremonial plant and braiding Sweetgrass is working with the ‘flowing hair of Mother Earth …. showing her our loving attention, our care for her beauty and wellbeing, in gratitude for all she has given us’ (p. 5). [...]as teachers and educators we can braid the three strands of ‘the flowing hair of Mother Earth’ through our work, by including Indigenous knowledge, Western scientific and intellectual knowledge, and the knowledge held by Earthkin themselves. Here western male power determines what counts as knowledge, and what does not through constructing binaries of unequal relations – ‘male/female, culture/nature, reason/emotion, sun/moon, and European/Aboriginal’ (McKnight, 2015, p. 278). Social character is constructed and transmitted through societal structures, institutions and conditions such as political and geographical factors, cultural traditions, population size, modes of production and technology, educational processes etc.
ISSN:0159-7868
2367-1793
DOI:10.1007/s41297-024-00242-1