Red Pedagogy: Native American Social And Political Thought Paperback 10

Sandy Grande

This ground-breaking text explores the intersection between dominant modes of critical educational theory and the socio-political landscape of American Indian education. Grande asserts that, with few exceptions, the matters of Indigenous people and Indian education have been either largely ignored or indiscriminately absorbed within critical theories of education. Furthermore, American Indian scholars and educators have largely resisted engagement with critical educational theory, tending to concentrate instead on the production of historical monographs, ethnographic studies, tribally-centered curricula, and site-based research. Such a focus stems from the fact that most American Indian scholars feel compelled to address the socio-economic urgencies of their own communities, against which engagement in abstract theory appears to be a luxury of the academic elite. While the author acknowledges the dire need for practical-community based research, she maintains that the global encroachment on Indigenous lands, resources, cultures and communities points to the equally urgent need to develop transcendent theories of decolonization and to build broad-based coalitions.

9781610489898

English

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

28 Sep 2015

346

Sandy Grande is associate professor and Chair of the Education Department at Connecticut College. Her research interfaces critical Indigenous theories with the concerns of education. In addition to Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought (2004, 2015), she has also published several book chapters and articles including: Accumulation of the Primitive: The Limits of Liberalism and the Politics of Occupy Wall Street.

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The first edition of Red Pedagogy had a deservedly powerful impact. This new edition is even more powerful. It combines a searing critique with renewed insights and passion-and at the same time asks all of us who calls ourselves critical educators to challenge some of the very bases of what we take for granted and who the "we" actually is. -- Michael W. Apple, EdD, John Bascom Professor of Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of "Can Education Change Society?" This may well be the most important book you will read on the United States educational system viewed through the lens of the Native American experience; its history, present, and future, come into focus. Red Pedagogy is a classic work already, and with this 10th Anniversary edition, it soars beyond the original text to a collective collaboration, expanding and deepening its profound thesis, which in the 21st century finds Native Nations as prisoners of democracy under a continuing colonial regime. Free of jargon, this beautifully composed, powerful, and ultimately hopeful book should be read by everyone. -- Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of "An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" Situated in an academic context of intellectual sectarianism, Sandy Grande's 10th anniversary edition of Red Pedagogy distinguishes itself from re-prints of other classic texts in that it is accompanied by a handful of leading critical and indigenous scholars Grande boldly invited to critique and extend her work. The second extended (but not expanded) edition of Red Pedagogy is therefore a welcomed and much needed revolutionary intervention into anti-colonialist/anti-capitalist scholarship. Coming at a time of both heightened imperialist immiseration and anti-colonialist/anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist resistance, Grande's interrelated call for critique and collectivity points to a rigorous red pedagogy desperately needed to sharpen analysis and hone a collective strategy, which also happens to be, for communists, the purpose of the party.