Xiaoqin's Presentation: a bridge between two philosophies

In the chapter “Indigenous and Dominant Western Philosophies: A Bridge Too Far?” Styres (2017) used the Guswhenta as a metaphor to describe Indigenous and dominant Western knowledge systems as “distinct and mutually sovereign ways of knowing and being” (p. 128). Despite the disparity between the two knowledge systems, Styres (2017) attempted a bridge between Indigenous and dominant Western educational philosophies and maintained that the two knowledge systems could coexist in the context that both de-centers Western epistemologies while re-entering those of Indigenous philosophies…