Looking into the hearts of native peoples: nation building as an institutional orientation for graduate education

Brayboy, Bryan McKinley Jones and Castagno, Angelina E. and Solyom, Jessica A. (2014) Looking into the hearts of native peoples: nation building as an institutional orientation for graduate education. American Journal of Education, 120 (4). pp. 575-596. ISSN 0195-6744

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Abstract

In this article, we suggest that graduate programs in predominantly white institutions can and should be sites of self-education and tribal nation building. In arguing this, we examine how a particular graduate program and the participants of that program engaged tribal nation building, and then we suggest that graduate education writ large must also adopt an institutional orientation of nation building. We connect Guinier's notion of democratic merit to our discussion of nation building as a way to suggest a rethinking of "success" and "merit" in graduate education. We argue that higher education should be centrally concerned with capacity building and graduates who aim to serve their communities.

Item Type:	Article
Publisher’s Statement:	© 2014 by The University of Chicago Press. All rights reserved.
ID number or DOI:	10.1086/676908
Keywords:	community development; Indians of North America); meritocracy; Self-culture; sovereignty; Teaching Methods;
Subjects:	E History America > E11 America (General) L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
NAU Depositing Author Academic Status:	Faculty/Staff
Department/Unit:	College of Social and Behavioral Science > Ethnic Studies
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2017 22:55
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1389

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