Education for tomorrow : a biocentric, student-focused model for reconstructing education / / Michael Risku and Letitia Harding.

• Superior document: Other Books
• Author: Risku, Michael.
• TeilnehmendeR: Harding, Letitia.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed. 2013.
• Language: English
• Series: Other Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (209 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Education for Tomorrow A Biocentric, Student-Focused Approach to Education Reform Michael Risku University of the Incarnate Word, USA and Letitia Harding University of the Incarnate Word, USA There are many books on the market which discuss indigenous ways of knowing, and bemoan western society’s seeming lack of interest in anything other than scientific fact-based knowledge. Equally plentiful are the writings of critical theorists who consider today’s public education system to be divisive, and manipulated by those in power to ensure that their children have the educational advantages needed to maintain the elite hierarchical status quo. Education for Tomorrow is unique in that it brings both of these approaches together first by examining the ways that indigenous people and women of all cultures acquire and pass on knowledge, and the deleterious effects that enforced Eurocentric systems have had on that process. The authors then turn to public schools to explore the influences, both good and bad, that today’s programs have on the distribution of opportunities afforded to all children in the United States. Finally, they offer suggestions for a revolutionary education system which highlights the need for all students to have the encouragement and freedom to look critically and rationally at their lives and at their relationship with the natural world. This can be achieved by looking back to the pedagogical methods of our indigenous ancestors, and forward to a time when all children, regardless of ethnic or socio-economic heritage, are taught in such a way that every aspect of their lives is addressed, nurtured, valued, and enhanced.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Noaa and the Deerfly / Michael Risku -- Introduction / Michael Risku -- The Butterfly Tree / Michael Risku -- Indigenous Ways of Knowing / Michael Risku -- Biocentric Connections to the Land and the Sea / Michael Risku -- Intuition and Attitudes Toward Women / Michael Risku -- My Teachers: First, Best, and Uncertified / Michael Risku -- Traditional Indigenous Education / Michael Risku -- The Right of Man – Seek and Destroy? / Michael Risku -- Indigenous and Western Ways of Knowing: A Conflict of Interests / Michael Risku -- Not so Great Expectations / Michael Risku -- The Western Education System / Michael Risku -- Thank Goodness for Comic Books and Social Promotion: The Imposition of a Language / Michael Risku -- Language and Power / Michael Risku -- Embracing Identity / Michael Risku -- Neither Wolf Nor Dog / Michael Risku -- In Search of Utopia / Michael Risku -- A Unified Theory / Michael Risku -- Herb / Michael Risku -- Why a New Pathway / Michael Risku -- Daisy / Michael Risku -- The Way Forward / Michael Risku -- Notes / Michael Risku -- Bibliography / Michael Risku -- Subject Index / Michael Risku.