Culturally Responsive, Sustaining, and Revitalizing Pedagogies: Perspectives from Native American Education

Abstract

We examine culturally relevant/responsive pedagogy (CRP) and its extensions–culturally based and culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogy–focusing on Native American/Indigenous education. Teasing out the roots of these pedagogies in Indigenous education systems, we follow their “footprints” in contemporary education practices. How might these models of Indigenous CRP help nurture diverse learner assets, foster students’ critical engagement with power and privilege, and (re)imagine and act for a socially just world?

Keywords:

• Native American/Indigenous education
• culturally responsive schooling
• culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogies
• Indigenous self-determination
• civics education