Hidden Curriculum: Notes of a Lakota Mother As part of my graduate studies at the University of Arizona, I took a course in Curriculum, and expected to do curriculum writing, look at models of set curriculum, learn about state standards, etc. What I did not expect was a course that would divulge me into the study of not just curriculum on the surface level, but curriculum as a CONCEPT of the reality that we construct for students as we teach in classrooms. More importantly, how the "banking concept of education," (Freire, 1983) was widely practiced still, and I began to relate as both a student and teacher to the concept that there were clear distinctions yet to be made in the discipline of Native American education, especially to reservation education. I came to the conclusion that a different concept of education was needed (Friere, 1983): In problem posing education, men develop their power to perceive critically the way they exist in the world with whi...
Native American author, fictional and academic. Thoughts, philosophies, and interpretations from a Native Lakota Sioux Woman's Perspective.