Publish and Flourish is an annual event that recognizes the accomplishments of our faculty and staff who have published a book within the past year. In connection with the Office of Research, the UW Tacoma Library celebrates the achievements of our campus community. The UW Tacoma Library purchases all faculty and staff publications to make them available to the UW community. This week we are highlighting:
Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education: The Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model
Author: Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn with Cornel Pewewardy and Anna Lees
Department: School of Education
“This book presents the Transformational Indigenous Praxis Model (TIPM), an innovative framework for promoting critical consciousness toward decolonization efforts among educators. The TIPM challenges readers to examine how even the most well-intentioned educators are complicit in reproducing ethnic stereotypes, racist actions, deficit-based ideology, and recolonization. Drawing from decades of collaboration with teachers and school leaders serving Indigenous children and communities, this volume will help educators better support the development of their students’ critical thinking skills. Representing a holistic balance, the text is organized in four sections: Birth–Grade 12 and Community Education, Teacher Education, Higher Education, and Educational Leadership. Unsettling Settler-Colonial Education centers the needs of teachers, children, families, and communities that are currently engaged in public education and who deserve an improved experience today, while also committing to more positive Indigenous futurities.” — Teachers College Press
Review (from Teachers College Press):
“This brilliant collection of essays by prominent K–12 Indigenous educators provides a cohesive, paradigm-shifting framework and theory for decolonizing the ongoing settler-colonial education model in the United States. A must-read for every K–12 teacher and librarian, but also for parents and school board members.” — Dr. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, historian and author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Find the book in the UW Libraries catalog here.
Find out more about the author here.