Decolonizing Indigenons Education: Beyond Culturalism: Toward Post-cultural Strategies

As a response to the recent international calls to decolonize the education of Indigenous students and increase school success among them by including indigenous knowledge into school curricula, aspects of Aboriginall cultural knowledge/perspectives were integrated into the Social Studies curriculum in a Canadian inner city school in order to appraise the effect on academic achievement, class attendance and school retention among some Canadian Aboriginal students. Results suggest some optimism about increasing school success among these students by integrating Aboriginal perspectives. Five effective approaches to the integration of Indigenous perspectives into the school curriculum and some critical elements of instruction that appear to affect academic achievement, class attendance and school retention among some Canadian Aboriginal students are discussed. Les recents appels internationaux exigent la decolonisation de l\u27enseignement des eleves indigenes pour augmenter leur succes scolaire en incluant les connaissances indigenes dans les curricula des ecoles. Pour repondre aces appels, des aspects de la connaissance et des perspectives de la culture autochtone ont eM integres dans le curriculum des sciences humaines d\u27une ecole dans un vieux quartier pauvre du Canada afin d\u27evaluer les effets sur l\u27accomplissement academique, l\u27assiduite et le redoublement scolaires chez quelques eleves autochtones canadiens. Le resultat suggere un certain optimisme dans l\u27augmentation du succes scolaire chez ces eleves avec l\u27integration des perspectives autochtones. Cinq fac;ons efficaces pour integrer les perspectives indigenes au curriculum de l\u27ecale et quelques elements critiques de l\u27instruction qui semblent avoir affecte le succes academique, l\u27assiduite et le redaublement scolaires chez quelques eleves autochtanes canadiens sont examines ici