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The Indigenous Knowledge Implementation Packsack: A Handbook for Embedding Indigenous

23 Jul 2024

In a sense, the entire purpose of this handbook and the Packsack itself is to outline a relationship-based vision of critical thinking skills, which we consider to be of fundamental value to all students and graduates of a postsecondary education. [...] This is not to contradict the messages above about cultural appropriation but to say that we are carefully defining what we consider to be Indigenous Knowledges for the purposes of our classrooms and our strategic mandates in the wake of the Calls to Action. [...] We understand that you may still feel uncomfortable, but you need to approach it in the same way that you would keep abreast of new developments in your field or a topic that you need to ‘brush up on.’ The key is to acknowledge that you are not Indigenous and you are not approaching the subject as an expert. [...] Teach the Whole Student When engaging in an experiential teaching method, there are methods and models that speak to how the teacher ‘relates’ to their students, and there is a crossover between these writings and those of scholars in the field of Indigenous pedagogy. [...] Indigenous peoples have used stories as analogies to explain the connections with people and the natural world (Bighead, 1997) but, as suggested in the 20 beginning of this section, the use of story to explain our world is fairly universal, and the first approach to scientific understanding.

Authors

Imran Somji

Pages
35
Published in
Canada

Table of Contents