ERIC Number: EJ1474851
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0039-3541
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Neepwaankiaki: Teaching Art and Culture in the Context of a Reciprocal Tribe-University Partnership
Luke Arthur Meeken1; Kristina Fox2; Stephanie Harvey Danker1
Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, v66 n2 p178-197 2025
In this article, we discuss a curricular collaboration between the art education program at Miami University and members of a research and education center, the Myaamia Center, affiliated with the Indigenous nation, the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, whose people originally inhabited the land where the university sits. One author is a citizen of the Miami Tribe and employee of the Myaamia Center, and two authors are settler professors of art education at Miami University. In this collaboration, majority-settler preservice art educators collaborated with Myaamia scholars to develop a curriculum that was then taught in area elementary schools serving majority-settler populations. The article examines this collaboration, and the teaching that emerged from it, through a community-engaged methodological lens, examining complications related to positionality, appropriation, and serving multiple community partners with diverse positionalities, needs, and goals. We then discuss how this collaborative process may serve as a model to address common harmful practices in settler art education.
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Partnerships in Education, Art Education, Indigenous Personnel, Preservice Teachers, Art Teachers, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Curriculum, Cultural Maintenance
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida (Miami)
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Author Affiliations: 1Miami University; 2Myaamia Center at Miami University