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The Medicine Wheel Revisited: Reflections on Indigenization in Counseling and Education
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Robertson, Lloyd Hawkeye |
| Copyright Year | 2021 |
| Abstract | Indigenization involves relating traditional cultures to modern methods, concepts, and science to facilitate their use by those populations. Despite attempts to indigenize both the practice of counseling and the content of educational curricula, mental health and educational deficits in Amerindian communities have remained. This article suggests indigenization in the North American context is often based on a reified view of culture that discounts naturalistic and scientific approaches, and that this dynamic inhibits progressive cultural change at institutional and community levels. A secular approach to indigenization is proposed that relates modern conceptual thought to traditional cultures in a way that is consistent with traditional constructs. The medicine wheel, traditional to North American Great Plains cultures, is applied to counseling to illustrate how concepts found in aboriginal cultures could inform modern practice with wider applications to curriculum development. Related tensions involving interpretations of aboriginal spiritualities and modernity are discussed. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/21582440211015202?download=true |
| ISSN | 21582440 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 11 |
| Journal | SAGE Open (SGO) |
| e-ISSN | 21582440 |
| DOI | 10.1177/21582440211015202 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications CA |
| Publisher Date | 2021-05-17 |
| Publisher Place | Los Angeles |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2021 |
| Subject Keyword | aboriginal mental health indigenization cross-cultural counseling aboriginal spirituality medicine wheel aboriginal education |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Arts and Humanities Social Sciences |
