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Vindevoghel, Lana J. – in education, 2016
This paper explores the social construction of knowledge, identity formation, and the ways in which the education system supports dominant societal ideology. I examine how dominant historical and societal ideologies are deeply cultivated and facilitated through education systems, including forcefully through the residential school system and, in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Identification (Psychology), Social Influences, Ideology
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Nelson, Christine A.; Youngbull, Natalie R. – in education, 2015
The article explores the experiences of 13 undergraduate American Indian college students who served as mentors through a service-learning course while attending a 4-year, predominantly White institution (PWI). This chapter elucidates how serving as a mentor allowed participants to draw on three culturally relevant persistence factors in higher…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Service Learning, Indigenous Populations, American Indian Students
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Aquash, Mark – in education, 2013
The study of geo-political and policy relationships between First Nations and Canada enables one to consider how Canada has used education as a process of colonizing First Nations, and to consider decolonization and self-determination as processes in education that can derail oppression in First Nation communities. From the position of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Canada Natives, Public Policy