Old Ways Are the New Way Forward: How Indigenous pedagogy can benefit everyone

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Old Ways Are the New Way Forward: How Indigenous pedagogy can benefit everyone
Jean-Paul Restoule, Chaw-win-is, Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s IdeaLab, 2020/01/22
I ran across this article (18 page PDF) searching for related materials and find it well worth sharing. As the summary says, the article "argues that traditional Indigenous ways of teaching and learning are relevant not only for Indigenous people, but for the education of all people.' A good portion of the article is devoted to defining indigenous ways of teaching and learning, and many of the tenets will feel familiar to readers of this newsletter. Related: Cindy Peltier on two-eyed seeing "as a guiding approach for researchers offering Indigenous voices and ways of knowing as a means to shift existing qualitative research paradigms". More...