The Power of Oral Culture in Education: Theorizing Proverbs, Idioms, and Folklore Tales

ISBN-13: 9783031185366 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 321 str.

Ardavan Eizadirad; Njoki Nathani Wane

Opis

This volume explores the importance of inter-generational oral culture and stories that transcend time, space, and boundaries transmitted historically from one generation to the next through proverbs, idioms, and folklore tales in different geographical and spatial contexts. These important stories and their embedded life lessons are introduced, explained, and supplemented with pre and post educational activities and lesson plans to be used as learning resources. The centering of orality as a tool and medium for educating the future generation is a reclamation and reaffirmation of Indigeneity, Indigenous knowledges. and non-hegemonic approaches to support students in a socio-culturally sustaining manner. Through this understanding, this book explores the interconnectedness between culture, traditions, language, and way of life through oral storytelling, sharing, and listening.   

Spis treści

Chapter 1. Introduction: Power of Oral Culture as Spiritual Intergenerational Dialogue 

Chapter 2. "If a Child is not Initiated into a Village, They Will Burn it Down Just to Feel its Warmth”

Chapter 3. “mtu akikuita mmbwa usibweke/When Someone Calls You a Dog, Don’t Bark Back”

Chapter 4. Blind Men and the Elephant

Chapter 5. African Indigenous Culture: Ancestors as Foundations of Who We Are and Who We are to Become

Chapter 6. The ‘Listening Heart’: Rumi’s Story of the Parrot and the Merchant 

Chapter 7. Comic Telling through Rakugo Storytelling: The Persimmon Tree

Chapter 8. Seizing an Afrocentric Identity Within a U.S Context: Reclaiming the Self Through Resistance

Chapter 9. The Hyphenated Identity: Iranian- Canadian 

Chapter 10. Strength through Resistance: Malalai of Maiwand

Chapter 11. Buraanbur Healing Approach to Prevent Mental Illness among Somali Women living in Mainstream Spaces

Chapter 12. Re-Membering a Goan Folktale in the Midst of a Global Pandemic 

Chapter 13. Legend of the No Face Doll (origin: Haudenosaunee)

Chapter 14. The Role of Oral Traditions in Sustaining Black Owned Enterprises 

Chapter 15. The Legend of Tapkendi – The Kalenjin lady who outsmarted Maasai Warriors

Chapter 16. African Grandmothers’ Teachings: The Power of Orality

O autorze

Ardavan Eizadirad is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research interests include equity, standardized testing, youth violence, community engagement, anti-oppressive practices, critical pedagogy, social justice education, resistance, and decolonization. 

Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane’s research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.