Learning and teaching together : weaving indigenous ways of knowing into education /

Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-service teachers immersed in a crosscultural course in British Columbi...

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Main Author: Tanaka, Michele T. D., 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, [2016]
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Summary:Across Canada, teachers unfamiliar with Aboriginal approaches to learning are seeking ways to respectfully weave Aboriginal content into their lessons. This book introduces an indigenist approach to education. It recounts how pre-service teachers immersed in a crosscultural course in British Columbia began to practise Indigenous ways of knowing. Working alongside Indigenous wisdom keepers, they transformed earth fibres into a mural and, in the process, their own ideas about learning and teaching. By revealing how these students worked to integrate Indigenous ways of knowing into their practice, this book opens a path for teachers to nurture indigenist crosscultural understanding in their classrooms.
Physical Description:xxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [212]-224) and index.
ISBN:9780774829519
0774829516