Indigenous Students In Higher Education Research Articles

Indigenous students’ agency vis-à-vis the practices of recognition and invisibilization in a multilingual university

ABSTRACT This study addresses the role of Indigenous students in higher education regarding the practices of recognition and invisibilization of linguistic, ontological, and epistemic identities. We focus on a Colombian university and examine how Indigenous students contest and reshape the legacies of coloniality that permeate cultural, academic, and organizational practices. We draw on principles of a critical intercultural view in combination with elements from a decolonial perspective to explain the ways students’ intersectional subjectivities, languages, and communities are represented and positioned and how students engage in agentive action to reshape and contest colonial practices. Data collection included a sociolinguistic survey, field notes, interviews, a Círculo de Palabra, and documents. Findings show that Indigenous students engage in counterhegemonic agentic enactments through processes of material and symbolic reterritorialization. Indigenous students' agency on campus, more than an individual trait, appears a collective enactment of their social, cultural, and political aspirations and historical struggles.

Trajetórias indígenas na universidade: O direito ao ensino superior no Rio de Janeiro

Este artigo tem por objetivo discutir o acesso e a permanência de estudantes indígenas no ensino superior, a partir de um trabalho de campo realizado com jovens de diferentes etnias, universitários de instituições públicas e privadas no estado do Rio de Janeiro. Através de um trabalho de revisão histórica sobre o direito à educação das populações indígenas no país, da análise de documentos e de entrevistas realizadas aos estudantes, constatamos a necessidade de se aprimorar o processo de ingresso e as condições de permanência desses estudantes, executando e viabilizando uma ampliação das políticas públicas de ação afirmativa voltada para a inclusão das populações indígenas no ensino superior no estado do Rio de Janeiro.

Institutional Commitments to Ensure Native Graduate Student Success

AbstractRather than implementing diversity initiatives piecemeal, institutions seeking to broaden the participation of Indigenous students in higher education should consider adopting a comprehensive strategy of transformation. This chapter provides elements of a comprehensive strategy to ensure the success of Indigenous students.

Getting there and staying in: first-generation indigenous students’ educational pathways into Chilean higher education

Drawing on a total of 26 life history interviews with indigenous students in higher education, the article examines the role of activating valued resources and personal strategies to navigate unequal pathways into higher education. In Chile, the historical inequalities for indigenous people’s access to higher education are beginning to be reverted, but these changes misrecognize ongoing disadvantages in regard to experiencing university life. Selection choices regarding the institution and course are based on restricted information sources and prior knowledge, whilst the capital required to succeed is heavily biased toward higher socioeconomic backgrounds. This notwithstanding, students’ transitions into higher education are marked by spontaneous adaptations to work routines, managing crises, and the activation of other resources for ‘staying in’. Emphasis is placed on the resilience expressed by these young people, as the first-generation from their families to access higher education, to negotiate cumulative disadvantages from low-quality educational establishments and poverty.

The participation of Australian Indigenous students in higher education: a scoping review of empirical research, 2000\u20132016

While access to higher education has increased for Indigenous Australians, participation and completion rates remain lower than those of non-Indigenous Australians. A sound evidence base is needed to ground equity initiatives if they are to address the specific needs of Indigenous students. This paper presents the results of a scoping review of empirical research focusing on the participation of Indigenous students in higher education. The purpose of the scoping review was to synthesise empirical research on aspirations for, and barriers and enablers to, higher education that were published between 2000 and 2016 (n = 57), and identify areas where further research is needed. Despite a recent increase in research on this topic, relatively little attention has been paid to Indigenous students’ aspirations while they are at school. We argue that future research should take account of school students’ aspirations for higher education, including primary school students; the similitude of barriers and enablers across the student life cycle; differences within Indigenous community and among Indigenous students; and, the insights emerging from Indigenous methodologies and scholarship.

Creating inter-cultural spaces for co-learning

Among the many inhibitors to social inclusion and mobility faced by Indigenous peoples in Australia, under-representation of Indigenous students in Higher Education has long featured as a concern for government and human rights advocates. This is due to the attendant lower social indicators than those of the wider Australian society which characterise Indigenous peoples’ life experience. UNESCO’s guidelines on inter-cultural education published in 2007 provide some principles for groundwork to develop classrooms which are inclusive but not assimilationist. Models of how this might be done in practice, however, are scarce. In this paper we consider a model for inter-cultural education which uses joint analysis and dialogue surrounding self-representation of Indigenous peoples by Indigenous and non-Indigenous peers to then co-create a new, inter-cultural representation. The ‘Daruganora’ program involves Indigenous students leading dialogue with nonIndigenous peers and teachers to jointly interpret a purpose-built Indigenous art exhibition. We explain in this paper how spaces created by this dialogue can allow open, honest and respectful interaction between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people relating to Indigenous representations of identity. We argue that Daruganora provides a model for inter-cultural classrooms.

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/19827199973 In the scope of the universities, new challenges are placed daily with the aim of overcoming the limitations which hinder the full participation of the subjects. In this sense, the inclusion of indigenous students in higher education represents an iconic and challenging reality. The article discusses how indigenous students and teachers who participate in the undergraduate course in Nursing from the Federal University of Mato Grosso (UFMT) in Sinop, Brazil, perceive the Indigenous Inclusion Program (PROIND), introduced there. It is, therefore, an exploratory, descriptive and interpretative study. Four indigenous students and six teachers participated in the study. The data collection was carried out through semi-structured interviews. The perception of the students prioritized the operational and pragmatic aspects, since the political aspects and the critical perception appear only underlying. In their statements, access to higher education was perceived as a federal government initiative, available to the indigenous peoples, and not as a right, an achievement or mitigatory measure. For the teachers, the issue of affirmative policies created certain uneasiness either by not wishing to speak contrary to them, or because they could not find adequate arguments to fight or defend them. The formal entry and the daily presence of the indigenous students in university spaces, when analyzed by more careful lenses, reveal a new form of exclusion, sometimes explicit, sometimes dissimulated, especially in the classroom and spaces of socialization. As will be seen in the text, there is still much to be done and built in order to effectively universalize the offer of quality higher education for indigenous peoples. Keywords : Indigenous students, Inclusion, Nursing. Normal 0 21 false false false PT-BR X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabela normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}

The Retention of Indigenous Students in Higher Education: Historical Issues, Federal Policy, and Indigenous Resilience

This article focuses on answering two main questions: Why is this phenomenon occurring for Indigenous students in higher education and what are effective solutions for the retention and success of Indigenous students in higher education?