Indigenous educational models for contemporary practice : in our mother's voice / edited by Maenette Kapeʻahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham with Joanne Elizabeth Cooper.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

v. 1. Gathering together to travel to the source: a vision for a language and culture-based educational model / Maenette Kape'ahiokalani Padeken Ah Nee-Benham with Joanne Elizabeth Cooper -- Building a child-centered model: "an indigenous model must look to the future" / Kate Cherrington -- A holistic education, teachings from the dance-house: "we cannot afford to lose one native child" / Jeannette Armstrong -- Grounding vision of the three baskets of knowledge: "Kia ora ai te iwi Maori" / Linda Aranga-Low -- Advocating for a stimulating and language-based education: "If you don't learn your language where can you go home to?" / Sarah Keahi -- A commitment to language-based education: "Among the gifts we can give our children is our cultural traditions" / Darrell Kipp -- Revitalizing culture and language: "Returning to the "Aina" / Kalena Silva -- Building an indigenous language center: "The children have the right to learn their language" / Gail Kiernan -- Linking native people around the spirituality of all life: "the gifts of our grandmothers and grandfathers" / San Suina -- Creating a ceremony: "Nature's model from the longhouse people" / Genevieve Gollnich -- Building linkages across the community: "To take action, takes great courage and strength" / L.A. Napier -- Envisioning a community-centered education: "We do not own our children we must honor them in all ways" / Paul Johnson -- The circle we call community: "As a community you all have to pull together" / Miranda Wright -- Educational empowerment for Maori people." "We are on the right path. We are on the right dreaming" / Susan Wetere-Bryandt -- Locating global learning centers: "with the united forces of us all" / Rosalie Medcraft.

"What is the philosophy that should drive native education policy and practice? In July 1997 a group of native educational leaders from the United States (including Alaska and Hawai'i), Canada, Australia, and New Zealand gathered to define a potential solution to this question. This book passes on the individual educational philosophies of the participants and captures the essence of each in a dynamic, transformational, and holistic model--"Go to the Source"--which forwards a collective vision for a native language- and culture-based educational philosophy that native educational leaders and teachers, policymakers, and curriculum developers can use to ground their work. For more information visit http://ed-web2.educ.msu.edu/voice/"--Publisher description.

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