Why do you think the author has this opinion? Is this something to be distressed about? by Jihwan Bae

2025-10-02 17:43:36 UTC

from the statistics alone, there’s a clear lack of indigenous education studies. additionally, this reading showed how our own concepts of education are, in a way, a colonial definition, where schools are the single method of education that a person can find

2025-10-02 17:43:52 UTC

Anthropology is, in much of Western academia, very focused on the “Other”, where white ethnocentrists posit themselves as central and Indigenous communities as marginal. This reflects how Indigenous communities are not understood as being “relevant” to mainstream narratives- their stories can only be preserved when in the context of the Other, rather than part of the ‘dominant’ culture, which has the privilege of being considered part of history.

2025-10-02 17:44:52 UTC

Because her people are being viewed as antiquiated

2025-10-02 17:46:05 UTC

studies focus mostly on formal schooling rather than nonschool contexts of education. this ignores the diverse ways that native communities taught and learned

2025-10-02 17:46:11 UTC

I think she holds this opinion because indigenous studies are shared enough

2025-10-02 17:46:13 UTC

I think that there are two reasons that the author holds this opinion. Firstly, anthropology has ha a history of exoticising the cultures that they study. The study would then be about the idea of the culture rather than the content of the education that they have to give, as it would be in history that looks more at facts.

Secondly, I think studying it as anthropology can in some people’s eyes make the knowledge that indigenous people have seem less “credible” as it is more from the perspective of what their culture offers them, rather than a more analytical over view of what their knowledge has to give to the world and the veracity of that knowledge

2025-10-02 17:46:35 UTC

it's politically incorrect to choose one thing over another if both parties haven't come to some sort of agreement even if their view points differ

2025-10-02 17:48:55 UTC

yes this is something to be distressed about because the narrow focus on schooling means many other forms of learning outside formal classrooms are ignored. the tendency to push indigenous education into anthropology rather than history shows the bias that sidelines these communities