Kari A. B. Chew, Ph.D.

Indigenous Language Education

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  • About
  • Writing
  • Decolonizing Pedagogies
    • Adult Learners
  • Online Courses
    • Video Series
    • Guide
    • Webinar
    • Map
  • chapter

    Decolonizing Indigenous language pedagogies: Additional language learning and teaching

    Given the experiences of colonization common to North American Indigenous communities, people learn Indigenous languages in situations with multiple layers of removal: communities from land; relations from intergenerational continuity; and grammar from real communicative contexts, places, and spirituality. Indigenous languages are often taught in ways inscribed by norms and assumptions…

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    Sustaining and revitalizing Indigenous languages in Oklahoma public schools: Educational sovereignty in language policy and planning

    As Indigenous scholars committed to Indigenous education in Oklahoma, we use a decolonizing approach to consider how the 39 Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma assert educational sovereignty to sustain Indigenous high school students’ linguistic and cultural identities. Seeking to promote education models that sustain and revitalize Indigenous languages, we ask: 1)…

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    Teaching from a place of hope in Indigenous education

    The Council on Anthropology and Education’s Standing Committee on Indigenous Education has had a presence at the Annual Meetings of the American Anthropology Association over the past decade. Member activities focus on engaging in theoretical and methodological discussions central to the field of Indigenous education, particularly those related to power…

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Dr. Kari A. B. Chew

Chokma. Saholhchifoat Kari A. B. Chew. Chikashsha sa'yacha Chikashshanompa' ithanali.


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