Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education
This book provides a comprehensive overview of navigating the on-going systemic challenges, hardships, and problems facing many indigenous teacher education programs today, helping to foster a commitment to developing quality indigenous teacher education
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Paul Whitinui · Maria del Carmen Rodríguez de France · Onowa McIvor Editors
Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education
Editors Paul Whitinui School of Exercise Science, Physical and Health Education University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada
Onowa McIvor Indigneous Education University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada
Maria del Carmen Rodríguez de France Indigneous Education University of Victoria Victoria, BC Canada
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Foreword
Indigenizing the academy: Promise and hope in Teacher Education As I set out to read Promising Practices in Indigenous Teacher Education and consider my invited Foreword, little did I expect until I got reading these inspiring essays how valuable they would be for me, a senior Mi’kmaw scholar working in teacher education at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). For over 23 years my teacher education life-work has been in decolonizing and transforming public education through a trans-systemic synthesis with Indigenous knowledge. My enthusiasm to this book came in the context of my new teaching responsibilities within the first mandatory course in First Nations, Metis and Inuit education to teacher candidates at the College of Education. My interest also comes about in the context of the College’s mandate to prioritize Indigenous education in teacher education and also within the mandates of Canadian universities to advance Indigenous student’s success and
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