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Below you will find scholarly resources that describe and exemplify responsible and respectful curricula and pedagogies, including a list of featured resources and an extensive, downloadable bibliography.
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Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory. " Narrating a Critical Indigenous Pedagogy of Place: A Literary Métissage. " Educational Theory 67, no. 4 (2017): 509-525.
Ragoonaden, Karen and Lyle Mueller. " Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Indigenizing Curriculum ." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 47, no. 2 (2017): 22-46.
What is Indigenization?
Mount Royal University is undertaking the campus-wide process of Indigenization. It is our goal "to respect and embrace Indigenous knowledge and ways of knowing, to integrate Indigenous teachings and practices and to honour Indigenous experiences and identities" both in the classroom and across the institution.
Below you will find a list of academic resources that define and exemplify Indigenization, including lists of featured resources and an extensive, downloadable bibliography.
Battiste, Marie and James (Sa'ke'j) Youngblood Henderson. " Naturalizing Indigenous knowledge in Eurocentric education ." Canadian Journal of Native Education 32 (2009): 5-18.
CBC Radio. " "Universities don't become different just by wishing for it": Eve Tuck on the challenge of changing academia ." 26 February 2018. http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/decolonizing-the-classroom-is-there-space-for-indigenous-knowledge-in-academia-1.4544984/universities-don-t-become-different-just-by-wishing-for-it-eve-tuck-on-the-challenge-of-changing-academia-1.4547278
Findlay, Len. " Always Indigenize! The radical humanities in the postcolonial Canadian University ." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 31, no. 1 (Jan-April 2000): 307-326
Ottmann, Jacqueline. "Indigenizing the Academy: Confronting "Contentious Ground. " The Morning Watch: Educational and Social Analysis 40, nos. 3-4 (Winter 2013): 8-24.
Pete, Shauneen. "100 ways to Indigenize and decolonize academic programs and courses." Aboriginal Policy Studies 6, no. 1 (2016): 81-89.
Pidgeon, Michelle. " More than a Checklist: Meaningful Indigenous Inclusion in Higher Education. " Social Inclusion 4, no. 1 (2016): 77-91.
Cunningham, S. M. (2022). Stories from Inside the Circle: Embodied Indigeneity and Resurgent Practice in Post-secondary Institutions (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada).
Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory. " Narrating a Critical Indigenous Pedagogy of Place: A Literary Métissage ." Educational Theory 67, no. 4 (2017): 509-525.
Ragoonaden, Karen and Lyle Mueller. " Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Indigenizing Curriculum. ." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 47, no. 2 (2017): 22-46.
Archibald, Jo-Ann. "Indigenous Storywork Methodology ." In Handbook of the Arts in Qualitative Research: Perspectives, Methodologies, Examples and Issues. Eds. Knowles, Gary J. and Ardra L. Cole. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications, 2008. 371-384.
Kovach, Margaret. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations and Contexts. Toronto: UofT Press, 2009.
What is Decolonization?
Mount Royal has set out to "cultivate respectful and welcoming environments that prevail over the legacy of colonization": a legacy which academic institutions in the West have a played central role in building. The work of decolonizing the university is critical to our larger goal of Indigenizing.
Below you will find academic resources that define and exemplify decolonization, including lists of featured resources and an extensive, downloadable bibliography.
Cote-Meek, Sheila. Colonized Classrooms: Racism, Trauma and Resistance in Post-secondary Education . Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2014.
Coulthard, Glen Sean. Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas). University of Minnesota Press, 2014
Davis, Lynne et. al. " Special Issue: Pathways of Settler Decolonisation ." Settler Colonial Studies 7, no. 4 (2017).
McFarlane, Peter and Nicole Schabus. Eds. Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization. Vancouver: Federation of Post-Secondary Educators of BC, 2017. http://fpse.ca/sites/default/files/news_files/Decolonization%20Handbook.pdf
Fanon, Frantz. Black Skin, White Masks. Pluto, 1993.
Tuck, Eve and K. Wayne Yang. " Decolonization is not a Metaphor ." Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-40.
Ahmed, Sara. On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life. Duke University Press, 2012
Clarke, Austin. More: A Novel. Thomas Allen Publishers, 2008.
Diangelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018.
Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. Grove Press, 1963.
Maynard Robyn, Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017.
Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Cornell University Press, 1997.
Tator, Carol, and Frances Henry. Racial Profiling in Canada: Challenging the Myth of 'A Few Apples.' University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Kievit, Joyce Ann. " A Discussion of Scholarly Responsibilities to Indigenous Communities ." The American Indian Quarterly 27, nos. 1&2 (2003): 3-45.
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples . 2nd Ed. London: Zed Books, 2012.
