Critical Indigenous Pedagogy of Place

Critical pedagogy can be translated to an approach that facilitates a process of critical consciousness. Collective purpose is crystallized each time by the people, places, and processes rooted in Critical Indigenous Pedagogy of Place (CIPP). The process includes an analysis of power, and how it is manifested in the structures or systems and impacts people's lives. The indigenization process and strategy can transform a place of marginalization, including its knowledge, culture, language, and social practice, to a place of resistance to victimization and oppression, empowerment, and hope. CIPP incorporates student organizing or participation and sociopolitical development. Most importantly, it can move practice toward social action and social justice as it challenges structural oppression and makes practice accountable to the community or target population served. Countless students wrote reflections expressing their desire to continue to learn more about social justice and become more involved in their community or college career.