Power of Oral Culture in Education

Ardavan Eizadirad is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. His research interests include equity, standardized testing, youth violence, community engagement, anti-oppressive practices, critical pedagogy, social justice education, resistance, and decolonization. Njoki Nathani Wane is Chair of the Department of Social Justice Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto, Canada. Wane’s research interests include African Indigenous knowledges, spirituality, anti-colonial, decolonial, and decolonization theory.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Power of Oral Culture as Spiritual Intergenerational Dialogue.- Chapter 2: "If a Child is not Initiated into a Village, They Will Burn it Down Just to Feel its Warmth”.- Chapter 3: “mtu akikuita mmbwa usibweke/When Someone Calls You a Dog, Don’t Bark Back”.- Chapter 4: Blind Men and the Elephant.- Chapter 5: African Indigenous Culture: Ancestors as Foundations of Who We Are and Who We are to Become.- Chapter 6: The ‘Listening Heart’: Rumi’s Story of the Parrot and the Merchant.- Chapter 7: Comic Telling through Rakugo Storytelling: The Persimmon Tree.- Chapter 8: Seizing an Afrocentric Identity Within a U.S Context: Reclaiming the Self Through Resistance.- Chapter 9: The Hyphenated Identity: Iranian- Canadian.- Chapter 10: Strength through Resistance: Malalai of Maiwand.- Chapter 11: Buraanbur Healing Approach to Prevent Mental Illness among Somali Women living in Mainstream Spaces.- Chapter 12: Re-Membering a Goan Folktale in the Midst of a Global Pandemic.- Chapter 13: Legend of the No Face Doll (origin: Haudenosaunee).- Chapter 14: The Role of Oral Traditions in Sustaining Black Owned Enterprises.- Chapter 15: The Legend of Tapkendi – The Kalenjin lady who outsmarted Maasai Warriors.- Chapter 16: African Grandmothers’ Teachings: The Power of Orality.