Sharing Untold Stories

Abstract

This chapter will shine a light on key issues that continue to inhibit teachers and students from teaching and learning our true historical narratives in balanced and meaningful ways. It will present instructional possibilities related to discussion pedagogy and how its systematic implementation can support students' needs through its intersections with self-determination theory. From there, the intent is to flesh out the need for implementing facets of discussion pedagogy – specifically as it relates to the teaching and learning of indigenous histories. Many scholars have promoted the need for indigenous histories to be learned in ways that are neither sanitized nor tokenized. The chapter will conclude by sharing how discussion pedagogy can aid students to make meaning of the content—and each other—in ways that will better prepare them to serve as active agents in their future democratic lives.