decolonizing education

Incorporating Indigenous knowledge into our education

By: Yildiz Subuk, Staff Writer The incorporation of Indigenous knowledge has been widely disregarded in western sciences. Due to racism and colonialism, Indigenous knowledge is often reduced to something that cannot fit within the frameworks of western pedagogy. Eurocentric education, which dominates Canadian education, often labels itself as “progressive” while constructing Indigenous knowledge as purely traditional, and unable to progress by the western standard. This construction of Indigenous knowledge has to do with the deeply-held colonial beliefs which construct Indigenous people as “primitive,” because their cultures and traditions differ from western ideals. Despite this reductive perspective, the intelligence compiled by…

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