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Wandera, David B. – Reading Research Quarterly, 2020
This article is based on the assumption that indigenous communities have a capacity to generate knowledge, and this capacity is largely underutilized or peripheralized in mainstream research. In this empirical qualitative study, the author makes a case for employing local non-Western analytic tools, in addition to Western analytic tools, to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Afrocentrism
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Stavrou, Stavros Georgios; Murphy, M. Shaun – Canadian Journal of Education, 2019
We describe mathematics classroom teaching practice in an urban Canadian prairie Cree-bilingual school using the term "Cree mathematizing," which, to us, means (re)considering Euro-Western school mathematics from the perspectives of the Cree people engaging with the content. "Cree mathematizing" takes the form of classroom…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Urban Schools, Bilingual Education
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Maganda, Dainess – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2016
Drawing from a sociocultural perspective of literacy, with the goal to promote the use of African Native Languages (ANL) in schools, I conducted a Participatory Action Research in one multilingual primary school community in North West Tanzania. For three weeks, 19 teachers, 19 parents and 119 6th grade students collaborated with each other in a…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Action Research, Participatory Research, African Languages