ERIC Number: EJ1384739
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 7
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ISSN: ISSN-2560-6050
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Looking Back to Find a Way Forward: Teaching from My Ancestors
Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, v6 p49-55 2023
Looking back and learning from Indigenous knowledges in education holds the key to supporting change in educational spaces today to be more inclusive and wholistic. Indigenous practices, passed down from generation to generation, hold important knowledge that can be used in classroom teaching. My hope is that by using this Indigenous lens of education, a path for change will be created in the current colonial education system. In this paper, I examine how I view classroom teaching through my own Indigenous worldview and with the support of those Indigenous scholars that have been doing this work for many years before me. I highlight the ways in which Indigenous knowledge systems support education and learning in today's classrooms. [Articles in this journal were presented at the University of Calgary Conference on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching.]
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Educational Change, Colonialism, Teaching (Occupation), World Views, Scholarship, Learning Processes, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Environment, Culturally Relevant Education, Community Involvement, Decolonization, Holistic Approach, Inclusion
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning. University of Calgary, 434 Collegiate Blvd NW, Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada. Tel: 403-220-3607; e-mail: taylorinstitute@ucalgary.ca; Web site: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/pplt
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada
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