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Diné decolonizing education and settler colonial elimination: a critical analysis of the 2005 Navajo Sovereignty in Education Act
Description
In 2005 the Navajo Nation Tribal Council passed the Navajo Sovereignty in Education Act (NSEA). The NSEA has been herald as a decisive new direction in Diné education with implications for Diné language and cultural revitalization. However, research has assumed the NSEA will lead to decolonizing efforts such as language revitalization and has yet to critically analyze how the NSEA is decolonizing or maintains settler colonial educational structures. In order to critically investigate the NSEA this thesis develops a framework of educational elimination through a literature review on the history of United States settler colonial elimination of Indigeneity through schooling and a framework of decolonizing education through a review of literature on promising practices in Indigenous education and culturally responsive schooling. The NSEA is analyzed through the decolonizing education framework and educational elimination framework. I argue the NSEA provides potential leverage for both decolonizing educational practices and the continuation of educational elimination.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Preston, Waquin (Author)
- Vicenti Carpio, Myla (Thesis advisor)
- Sumida Huaman, Elizabeth (Committee member)
- Tippeconnic III, John (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Native American Studies
- Education Policy
- pedagogy
- American Indian Studies
- Decolonization
- Dine
- Education
- Navajo
- Settler colonialism
- Educational law and legislation--Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Educational law and legislation
- Education and state--Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Education and state
- Navajo Indians--Education--Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Navajo Indians
- Culturally relevant pedagogy--Navajo Nation, Arizona, New Mexico & Utah.
- Culturally relevant pedagogy
Resource Type
Extent
v, 158 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.30041
Statement of Responsibility
by Waquin Preston
Description Source
Viewed on July 16, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.S., Arizona State University, 2015
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-155)
Field of study: Social justice and human rights
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