58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society 12 March 2014, 3:30-5:00pm, Building/Room: Sheraton Downtown/Peel Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M9, Canada

1. Che-Wei Lee
University of Pittsburgh
Duane Champagne
University of California, Los Angeles
58th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Education Society
12 March 2014, 3:30-5:00pm, Building/Room: Sheraton Downtown/Peel
Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel, 123 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2M9, Canada
Mapping a Transculturation
Education Paradigm for
Indigenous Peoples:
Dialectics between Policy Thinking,
Cultural Capacity, and Academic Success

2. What a successful
indigenous education
model should look like in
the 21st century?
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Why indigenous educational
policies have been
ineffective?

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Education for indigenous people
has a dialectical challenge.
Source: King and Schielmann (2004).

5. Why Indigenous Subjectivity
Matters in Education?
• the degree to which indigenous people can,
substantially and effectively, exert their tribal
consciousness demanded by various
situations;
• the capacity to express indigenous cultural
components appropriately
• a critical cultural praxis
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6. Immigrant Transculturation
Source: Fernando Ortiz (1940, p. 97-103)
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Acculturation
Neoculturation
Deculturation
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7. Volunteer Transculturation
Source: Adapted from Maurice Sill (1968, 246-7).
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Discovery Self-
Alignment
Participation Devolution
Threshold
24201612840
Months
Without Feedback for Re-Discovery

8. Feedback for Better Resilience (keeping
indigenous identity and heritage)
Indigenous Transculturation
Source: Adapted from Terry Huffman (2008, p. 155).
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Initial
Alienation
Self-
Discovery
Re-
Alignment
Participa-
tion

9. A Spectrum of Indigenous Engagement in
Education Policy Decision Making
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Genocide Revitalization
Strong Indigenous-Based
Engagement
(e.g., tribally controlled)
Weak Indigenous-Based
Engagement
(e.g., government-oriented)

10. A Promising Case in Southern
California Indian Education
The Morongo Indian School
- Embodying a movement toward greater local
control by a tribal community
- Focusing education on tribal citizenship more
than US citizenship derived from public/BIA’s
schooling
- Other than teaching tribal culture/history, also
preparing students to compete at the college &
professional level
- Small teacher-student ratios; greater
academic/cultural attention
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Carole Goldberg, Duane Champagne, and Che-Wei
Lee in the Paiwan Tribe, Pingtung, Taiwan
30 May 2008
leejeiwei@gmail.com