Indigenous
These adults instructed younger members of their tribe about history, geography, and customs.
What is a Village elder?
The methodical application of skill development and cognitive training that lacks honoring soul, creativity, and play.
What is Western(Modern) Education ?
An all encompassing spiritual context that focused on a need to live in balance with nature.
What is the primary purpose of Native American Education?
Evaluating a students success based on their inability to excel within given instruction.
What is Failure?
This allowed children to strengthen their skills through play in activities that resembled aspects of adult life like hunting, war, child rearing, and farming.
What are Imitative Activities (Games)?
A system that uses adolescent reading comprehension and math scores to determine their likelihood to commit crime.
What is the school to prison pipeline?
Utilizing stories to teach about survival, health, and cultural norms.
What is Oratory.
Students receive educational instruction with limited interaction with nature for an average of 6.8 hours a day.
What is a school day?
Once passed down from generation to generation these attitudes, values, beliefs, and content knowledge that included hunting, trapping, agricultural cultivation that are no longer practiced
What are anachronistic (old-fashioned) skills
Distinguished aspects of social life for learning, and levels of achievement.
What is formality?