Indigenous Epistemology

Marva McClean is a public-school educator and teacher-researcher whose research agenda focuses on social justice & equity in education; the sociology of middle school; transnationalism and post-colonial studies; and Indigenous/Aboriginal/Maroon cultures. She engages in collaborative inquiry with international scholars to explore Indigeneity across the globe and create strategies to build the historical consciousness of youth in schools. She is the author of From the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter: Ancestral Writing as a Pedagogy of Hope (Peter Lang, 2019). Marcus Waters is a Kamilaroi First Nation Aboriginal ceremonial keeper who speaks and writes in his Kamilaroi Aboriginal language. His research agenda focuses on surviving Kamilaroi epistemologies essential to cultural maintenance and trans-generational pedagogy. A published playwright, screenwriter, journalist and academic, he is Program Director of Creative and Professional Writing and Convener of Screenwriting at Griffith University, Australia. He is also a recipient of the Griffith University Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Waters is the author of Indigenous Knowledge Production: Navigating Humanity Within a Western World (2018).

Acknowledgments – Introduction – One World/One Narrative: Indigenous Identity, Concepts and Life Experiences – The Winding Sheets of the Womb: Self-Study and Collaborative Inquiry – When the Student Is Ready: Co-Constructing a Pedagogy of Courage – Won’t You Help Me Sing This Song of Freedom? Enacting Communal Resistance – The Arc of Hope: The Historical Empowerment of Our Heroes – From Resistance to Redemption—Reciprocity-Support-Truthfulness in the Classroom – Social Change through Creative Work: Building Criticality across the Globe – Conclusion – Postscript: The Wolf We Feed – Index.