Education's Histories

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Archive for December, 2014

December 3rd, 2014 by Abigail Gundlach-Graham

Questions of Methodology: A Review of the August 2014 History of Education Quarterly Special Issue

When we begin to consider Indigenous stories and acknowledge “that divergent epistemological beliefs and practices exist between Indigenous and Euroamerican groups, the premise of the question of ‘what is education’ necessarily shifts from definitional to methodological: How do we recognize it when we see it?”  In this essay, I look particularly at the methodological implications […]