TY - JOUR
T1 - Looking into the hearts of native peoples
T2 - Nation building as an institutional orientation for graduate education
AU - Brayboy, Bryan Mc Kinley Jones
AU - Castagno, Angelina E.
AU - Solyom, Jessica A.
PY - 2014/8
Y1 - 2014/8
N2 - In this article, we suggest that graduate programs in predominantly white institutions can and should be sites of self-education and tribal nation building. In arguing this, we examine how a particular graduate program and the participants of that program engaged tribal nation building, and then we suggest that graduate education writ large must also adopt an institutional orientation of nation building. We connect Guinier's notion of democratic merit to our discussion of nation building as a way to suggest a rethinking of "success" and "merit" in graduate education. We argue that higher education should be centrally concerned with capacity building and graduates who aim to serve their communities.
AB - In this article, we suggest that graduate programs in predominantly white institutions can and should be sites of self-education and tribal nation building. In arguing this, we examine how a particular graduate program and the participants of that program engaged tribal nation building, and then we suggest that graduate education writ large must also adopt an institutional orientation of nation building. We connect Guinier's notion of democratic merit to our discussion of nation building as a way to suggest a rethinking of "success" and "merit" in graduate education. We argue that higher education should be centrally concerned with capacity building and graduates who aim to serve their communities.
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U2 - 10.1086/676908
DO - 10.1086/676908
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904207551
SN - 0195-6744
VL - 120
SP - 575
EP - 596
JO - American Journal of Education
JF - American Journal of Education
IS - 4
ER -