TLS644

040324

This course is of particular relevance for graduate student-educators interested in Indigenous education and epistemology, and for educators serving Native American students in contemporary educational contexts. Students will explore the extensive collective heritage of Indigenous education and epistemology, conveyed through linguistic and cultural practices, recognized as the foundations of Indigenous well-being, belonging and identity. The overall goals are to advance a critical understanding of the role of Indigenous language and culture on human development and well-being through Indigenous perspectives, and to promote and nurture the influence of culture on the Indigenous person.

The course is offered as a distance education course among seven (7) collaborating higher education institutions. The course is organized around a series of collaborative international video discussions (14) and projects with participating university/tribal college cohorts in Hawaii, Alaska, New Zealand, Canada, Montana and Arizona (see polycom sites and facilitating Instructors). Students will actively engage with a community of international Indigenous and non-Indigenous faculty and student scholars in dialogue on the historical and contemporary issues associated with the education of Indigenous peoples and communities.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Graduate