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Education for Tomorrow

A Biocentric, Student-Focused Model for Reconstructing Education

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Authors:
  1. Michael Risku

    1. University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, USA

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  2. Letitia Harding

    1. University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Noaa and the Deerfly

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 3-6

  3. The Butterfly Tree

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Indigenous Ways of Knowing

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 9-22

  4. Biocentric Connections to the Land and the Sea

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Intuition and Attitudes toward Women

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 27-43

  5. My Teachers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-46
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    2. Traditional Indigenous Education

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 47-57

  6. The Right of Man – Seek and Destroy?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Indigenous and Western Ways of Knowing

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 61-69

  7. Not so Great Expectations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
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    2. The Western Education System

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 73-86

  8. Thank Goodness for Comic Books and Social Promotion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Language and Power

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 89-98

  9. Embracing Identity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Neither Wolf nor Dog

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 101-110

  10. In Search of Utopia

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. A Unified Theory

      • Michael Risku, Letitia Harding
      Pages 113-134

  11. Herb

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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Education for Tomorrow A Biocentric, Student-Focused Approach to Education Reform Michael Risku University of the Incarnate Word, USA and Letitia Harding University of the Incarnate Word, USA There are many books on the market which discuss indigenous ways of knowing, and bemoan western society’s seeming lack of interest in anything other than scientific fact-based knowledge. Equally plentiful are the writings of critical theorists who consider today’s public education system to be divisive, and manipulated by those in power to ensure that their children have the educational advantages needed to maintain the elite hierarchical status quo. Education for Tomorrow is unique in that it brings both of these approaches together first by examining the ways that indigenous people and women of all cultures acquire and pass on knowledge, and the deleterious effects that enforced Eurocentric systems have had on that process. The authors then turn to public schools to explore the influences, both good and bad, that today’s programs have on the distribution of opportunities afforded to all children in the United States. Finally, they offer suggestions for a revolutionary education system which highlights the need for all students to have the encouragement and freedom to look critically and rationally at their lives and at their relationship with the natural world. This can be achieved by looking back to the pedagogical methods of our indigenous ancestors, and forward to a time when all children, regardless of ethnic or socio-economic heritage, are taught in such a way that every aspect of their lives is addressed, nurtured, valued, and enhanced.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, USA

    Michael Risku, Letitia Harding

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Education for Tomorrow

  • Book Subtitle: A Biocentric, Student-Focused Model for Reconstructing Education

  • Authors: Michael Risku, Letitia Harding

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-158-0

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6209-158-0Published: 11 February 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 214

  • Topics: Education, general

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