Indigenous Culture, Education and Globalization Critical Perspective
The book explores the growing tension between indigenous education, the teaching and learning of native knowledge, cultural heritage and traditions and the dynamics of globalization from the Asian perspective. It brings together a distinguished and multid
- PDF / 4,453,194 Bytes
- 290 Pages / 453.543 x 683.15 pts Page_size
- 46 Downloads / 253 Views
digenous Culture, Education and Globalization Critical Perspectives from Asia
Indigenous Culture, Education and Globalization
Jun Xing Pak-sheung Ng •
Editors
Indigenous Culture, Education and Globalization Critical Perspectives from Asia
123
Editors Jun Xing Department of Liberal Studies California State University Los Angeles, CA USA
ISBN 978-3-662-48158-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-48159-2
Pak-sheung Ng General Education Center Hong Kong Polytechnic University Kowloon Hong Kong
ISBN 978-3-662-48159-2
(eBook)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2015948853 Springer Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer-Verlag GmbH Berlin Heidelberg is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Indigenous people of the Six Nations Confederacy (North America) were invited in 1744 to send boys to be educated at William and Mary College, in Virginia Territory. They politely, but pointedly, declined the offer while noting the wisdom of the commissioners from Maryland and Virginia. “You...know that different Nations have different Conceptions of things,” they said, and “you will not take it amiss if our Ideas of...Education happen not to be the same as yours.” Observing that they already had experienced sending their young males to the colleges, the Six Nations Confederacy refused the offer saying, “when they came back to us they were...totally good for nothing.” The Confederacy offered to show their gratitude, however, by having the “Gentlemen of Virginia” send a dozen of their young men, saying that “we will take care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men of them.” This anthology is one similar to the dilemma of the indigenous peoples of Virginia, communicating ideas with voices resonating from vastly different concepts of seeing and reasoning. There is a long history and a growing litany of calling up the “Indigenou
Data Loading...
