Checking the values of indigenous education from different communities in the world
Answering your question is complex, not only because of the vast diversity of "the indigenous", but also because the peoples grouped under this category are historical subjects, with internal tensions and mutations throughout time.
Just as an example, this week in class my students were surprised to learn that already by the 11th century the Mexica had established universal compulsory education.
In terms of values, at least in the South American perspective, an essential one is the reciprocity between what the West distinguished between "the natural" and "the human", and which in South American native worldviews is impossible to separate.
This leads to a philosophical rupture (rendering incomprehensible in its fullest sense) any economic/productive activity that is detrimental to environmental order and sustainability.
Now, you will understand that this is not the only value, nor is it expressed in exactly the same form and format in every place and moment of cultural experience in such a vast region.
I agree with Federico, this is far too ambiguous a question regarding very complex and potentially highly variable sets of educational practices among indigenous populations across the globe. Different environments and economies will result in very distinct educational activities. In anthropology, most of the assumptions about "education" are biased towards the concepts in our own societies, or are based on attempt to "model" such practices (again entirely in our own terms not those of any particular indigenous group), and rarely have any relevance at all to ethnographic realities. In your question, what are the "values of indigenous education"?
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