商品簡介
Four Arrows (Jacobs), who teaches educational leadership and change at Fielding Graduate U., argues that mainstream education in the US is hegemonic and influenced by corporate ideals and needs to be partnered with indigenous perspectives to allow authentic, truth-based teaching, thereby countering mainstream policies, politics, and curriculum. He shows teachers at any grade level and from any background how to create more meaningful, truthful, and equitable educational experiences that revitalize nature-base systems thinking, encourage appreciation for diversity and multiple interpretations of reality, develop character and emotional intelligence, stimulate self-reflection, question anthropocentrism, move away from authoritative status quo paradigms and into experiential-becoming ones, embrace the mysterious and the spirit in all, encourage respect for and survival of all life, and contribute to the public good. Chapters address the anti-Indian view and its effects; the phenomenon of historical trauma, the impact of anti-Indianism schooling, and the role of education in suppressing indigenous wisdom; an example of efforts to indigenize a school; ideas, strategies, and recommendations for incorporating the indigenous perspective; and lesson plans for health, music, English language arts, US history, math, economics, science, and geography. The final chapter addresses psychology and spirituality. For some chapters, he is joined by other contributors. There is no index. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Four Arrows (Don Trent Jacobs) has a PhD in Health Psychology from Columbia Pacific University and an EdD in Curriculum and Instruction with a Cognate in Indigenous Worldviews from Boise State University. Former Dean of Education at Oglala Lakota College and a tenured professor at Northern Arizona University, Four Arrows is currently on the faculty in the College of Educational Leadership and Change at Fielding Graduate University. Recipient of Canada’s Mid Day Star Award for his service to Aboriginal Peoples and the Moral Courage Award from the Martin Springer Institute on Holocaust Studies, Four Arrows is the author of 20 books and numerous chapters and articles on the positive application of Indigenous perspectives generalized from a number of First Nations on mainstream issues. He lives in a small fishing village in Mexico with his artist wife where he plays arena polo, stand-up paddle surfs and plays one-wall handball. In 2012, he placed fourth in the world championships of ?old time piano playing contests? and can be seen in the documentary, The Entertainers.
