LAND-BASED & indigenous education

Why Education Design Projects?

We created this site to share the Indigenous Education Design Projects our class has done that we hope will be helpful to others. Our website features students who have and are engaging in land and family-based design of educational projects as a way to advance Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. 

A core politic of the classes featured here engages with the design and study learning environments as places of historical struggle and potential strategic transformation. These projects are individual and collective ideas to design towards Indigenous futures because there are no singular, closed, or universal solutions to educational design. 

In Educational Design projects, we explore histories of Indigenous and land-based education and also how Indigenous communities have always and continue to re-craft their spaces of learning and development. We work to understand the links between different educational practices, in and out-of-school learning environments, and educational movements across diverse places, from U.S. American Indian and Alaskan Native communities to Indigenous movements in Thailand and self-determination schools in México, taking a connected approach towards understanding educational design and practice as part of cultivating more just, socially and ecologically flourishing futures.