(NAME-MCE) Indigenous Peoples' Perspectives on Multicultural Education

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Call  for Papers Opportunity Announcement



Title: Indigenous Peoples'  Perspectives on Multicultural Education

Deadline: March 30,  2010

Contact: Francisco Rios at 307-766-4055 OR  frios at uwyo.edu
<mailto:frios at uwyo.edu>  and Cornel Pewewardy at 503-725-9689  OR
cornelp at pdx.edu <mailto:cornelp at pdx.edu> 

Website:  http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15210960.asp
<http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/15210960.asp>  



There has been an  overall lack of written representation describing the
experiences of  Indigenous Peoples in education (broadly) and within the
field of  multicultural education (specifically).  This is problematic
given an increasing demographic reality wherein  Indigenous Peoples/First
Nations/American Indians/Alaska Natives/Native  Americans have become the
most underrepresented, underserved, exploited, and  oldest ethnic group
in the US.  As sovereign Nations, tribes have a role in the teaching
that is  conducted in their communities and in regulating that research
which occurs  on their tribal land and with their tribal citizens.
Indeed, the conversation  around race relations needs to broaden out from
a Black-White discourse to  include the Indigenous experience in
schooling.  This special issue of Multicultural  Perspectives is intended
to provide valuable information for practitioners  (teachers, counselors,
teacher educators, etc.), which might inform and  impact pedagogical
practices and curricular perspectives with links to  Indigenous cultural
practices within a multicultural education  framework.  



Guest editors of this special  issue are interested in any and all
contributions which link the Indigenous  experience to multicultural
education.  For example, a submission may provide a general
analysis/perspective  on multicultural education as an academic
discipline seen within an  Indigenous student point of view (the promise
of multicultural education for  Indigenous Peoples, the problems of
multicultural education for Indigenous  Peoples, new directions and
possibilities for multicultural education based  on the Indigenous
experience, etc.).  Some other possibilities may include the following.



1         Culturally Responsive Curriculum and Pedagogy for  Indigenous
Peoples

2         Schooling (policies and procedures) for Indigenous Peoples

3         Non-formal Schooling and Indigenous Peoples



We encourage the use of the  tribal language of the community that you
represent.  We encourage the "Indigenous Ways of  Knowing" of the
community that you represent as well.  Keep in mind that 30% of  the
readership for the journal is classroom (K-12) teachers.