Description
05.14.25 Pre and Coreq removed
6/24/2020
EDU 240: Indigenous Education
Credits: 3 cr. hrs. (3 pds: 3 lec)
Prerequisites: None
Course Description: The course moves students beyond their understanding of education within a
western or mainstream context by introducing the field of Indigenous Education through the
perspectives of Indigenous scholars, researchers, knowledge keepers, practitioners, and community
members who offer Indigenous ways of teaching and knowing inherent to Indigenous philosophy. The
course further introduces Indigenous Education as a framework for holistic, life-long learning.
The course examines components of Indigenous philosophy (ontology, axiology, and epistemology)
within a context of a non-western participatory and experiential knowledge system and explores
significant principles and processes in coming to know and in ways of knowing, engaging, and being (as
practiced by Indigenous peoples). The course prepares students to analyze and critique th