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Red Pedagogy: Native American Social and Political Thought

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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.
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  1. ISBN-10
    0742518299
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0742518292
  3. Publisher
    Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  4. Publication date
    September 1, 2004
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
  7. Print length
    184 pages
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Sandy Grande's book is an important contribution to the scholarship on Native American education and it contains a critical analysis and guide to current thinking. It also offers a powerful agenda for charting the future course of Native American education. (Joel Spring)

Sandy Grande ably succeeds in defining the common ground between American Indian intellectuals and critical scholars engaged in anti-imperialist and anticapitalist struggles for decolonization, an unintended but plausible and relatively absent anticolonial indigenous contribution to critical adult education. (Adult Education Quarterly)

Although critical of dominant modes, Grande nevertheless maintains that scholars should not reject all of them, but instead maintain a critical stance, a key component of Red Pedagoogy. This book is necessary reading for anyone seeking 'emancipatory pedagogies' for indigenous people. (Steven Crum)

Red Pedagogy is sure to become a classic text in the field of critical education. Grande's book represents arguably the most significant advancement within the critical pedagogical literature in recent decades. It is a book that cannot be ignored. This book will define the central terms of the educational debate over social justice for years to come. It is a landmark work by one of education's most important new scholars and activists. (McLaren, Peter)

About the Author

Sandy Grande is associate professor of education at Connecticut College.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (September 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 184 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0742518299
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0742518292
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.75 x 8.75 inches
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gradschoolgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2010
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An absolute must-read for anyone working in indigenous schools or who wants to understand the politics of indigenous education.

Grande walks you through some history in indigenous education as she builds a new theory around how indigenous education scholars should imagine interpretative frames in the present and future. This books sends thoughts of a vision for vastly improving indigenous education.
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Stephanie Prieto
5.0 out of 5 stars eye-opening, for educators who want to do better
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2018
In Red Pedagogy, Sandy Grande is looking specifically at education. She begins with a discussion of the residential schools, where “education” was a tool used to both “deculturize” Native students and to train laborers. “Radical students and educators must ‘question how knowledge is related historically, culturally, (and) institutionally to the process of production and consumption,’ and ask: How is knowledge produced? Who produces it? How is it appropriated? Who consumes it? (and) How is it consumed?” Grande addresses “ the deep deficiencies of off-the-shelf brands of multiculturalism, which espouse the empty rhetoric of ‘respecting differences’ and market synthetic pedagogies that reduce culture to the ‘celebration’ of food, fad, and festivals.” She is addressing the “assimilationist agenda” that is embedded in our education system.

Grande’s assessment of Marxism and feminism explain how both seemingly liberal movements become anti-Indigenous within a Euro-American framework. She points out “the humanistic tradition that presumes the superiority of human beings over the rest of nature,” and how “both Marxists and capitalists view land and natural resources as commodities to be exploited.” We all must use the natural world to survive; the difference is in the presumption of superiority.

She also reflects on “the failure of ‘mainstream’ feminists to recognize that most American Indian women view their lives as shaped, first and foremost by the historical-material conditions of colonization and not some universal patriarchy. … By insisting on gender as the primary conceptual framework from which to interpret inequality, such theorists not only blur the actual structures of power but also obfuscate feminism’s implication in the projects of colonization and global capitalism.”

Some critical race theorists, such as Robert A. Williams suggest that the progression of democratic thought, replacing the church with the state as the central political structure, is a myth. Williams says that “the universalized hierarchical structures of medieval thought continue to define Western legal and political theory and therefore the democratic praxis.” Likewise the “Calvinist” work ethic has been replaced by an industrialist work ethic. Hard work, progress, and productivity confused with consumption. The problem of a consumer-based culture.

Grande’s work is important in that it points out the blind spots even well-meaning educators, arts organizers, activists, and socially conscious individuals may have with it comes to Native American belief systems and ways of being.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2014
An eye opener for those trying to understand the plight of Native Americans.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful, as a parent to gain an understanding of ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2016
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Insightful, as a parent to gain an understanding of how policy is shaping how teachers are interacting and perceiving cultural bais and how they respond to children.
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