A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America

by Curry Stephenson Malott

Overview

A Call to Action challenges current and future teachers to take seriously the philosophical implications of being an educator on land indigenous to a particular human group with both Native and non-Native students. Readers are introduced to the interrelated histories of education, philosophy, and Native and non-Native peoples in North America. These discussions point to the advancement of a critical pedagogy for Native North America. This book should be read by any teacher or student who is or will be involved with cultural studies, especially in the area of Native Americans.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433101724
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	12/05/2007
Series:	Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

The Author: Curry Stephenson Malott works and lives in Buffalo, New York. He has published in areas such as cultural studies, critical pedagogy, the social studies, Marxism, teacher education, urban education, neo-liberalism, and Latin American education. With Milagros Peña, he is author of Punk Rockers’ Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender (Peter Lang, 2005).

Editorial Reviews

«Decolonizing pedagogy is a major task of those of us who work in the field of critical education and Curry Stephenson Malott’s ‘A Call to Action’ is a major advance in this endeavor – an important book that needs to be engaged by critical educators everywhere.» (Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)

«Decolonizing pedagogy is a major task of those of us who work in the field of critical education and Curry Stephenson Malott’s ‘A Call to Action’ is a major advance in this endeavor – an important book that needs to be engaged by critical educators everywhere.» (Peter McLaren, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles)

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