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MEDICINE WHEEL PEDAGOGY
MEDICINE WHEEL PEDAGOGY
The article Teaching by the Medicine Wheel: An Anishinaabe framework for Indigenous education, plublished on June 9, 2014 in EdCan Network provides a very useful introduction to teaching holistically.
The Medicine Wheel diagram on the right, informed by Cree Eder Michael Thrasher, depicts how learning is actualized in each of the directions, starting from east, going south, then west and finishing in the north. The circle, like learning, is cyclical and perpetual.
Indigenous education focuses on developing individuals holistically, that is spiritually, physically, emotionally and mentally.
Land-based Learning, Circle Teaching and Storytelling
Land-based Learning, Circle Teaching and Storytelling
The wheel below, modeled on the Medicine Wheel, highlights the how each of the Indigenous Pedagogies below create inclusion, equality, empathy, compassion, respect, and finally community in learning environments. More can learned about each of the Indigenous Pedagogies below.
Land-based Learning / Land as Pedagogy
Land-based Learning / Land as Pedagogy
"We cannot carry out the kind of decolonization our ancestors set in motion if we don’t create a generation of land based, community based intellectuals and cultural producers who are accountable to our nations and whose life work is concerned with the regeneration of these systems, rather than meeting the overwhelming needs of the western academic industrial complex or attempting to “Indigenize the academy” by bringing Indigenous Knowledges into the academy on the terms of the academy itself."
"We cannot carry out the kind of decolonization our ancestors set in motion if we don’t create a generation of land based, community based intellectuals and cultural producers who are accountable to our nations and whose life work is concerned with the regeneration of these systems, rather than meeting the overwhelming needs of the western academic industrial complex or attempting to “Indigenize the academy” by bringing Indigenous Knowledges into the academy on the terms of the academy itself."
~ Leanne Simpson
~ Leanne Simpson
Circle Teaching
Circle Teaching
storytelling
storytelling
Talk Stories
Talk Stories
"A form of group discussion characterized by its circular dynamic, allows educators and learners to contextualize theory with their life experiences to build group consciousness" ~ Janice Foy
Indigenous & Western Teaching & Learning
Indigenous & Western Teaching & Learning
Below are some distinction between traditional Indigenous and traditional Western Teaching and Learning Practices and Pedagogies. Please note that the list is not exhaustive.
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