ERIC Number: EJ1396049
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
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Turning to Greet the Unheard, Unseen, and Unknown in Western Thought: Autoethnographic Stories of Learning with the Blackfoot
Rinkel-Mackay, Sherri
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, v69 n2 p144-166 2023
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada has calls to action for the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges and teaching practices in classrooms. Western educators have different degrees of willingness, understanding, and skill in teaching Indigenous concepts and their teaching practices can be superficial. Highlighting autoethnographic accounts of learning from Blackfoot Elders through Indigenous land-based pedagogy with current literature review data, I argue that Western educators must understand that the more-than-human entities are animate and have agency in teaching and healing people. Findings suggest that all students benefit from the wise teaching practices of inviting the more-than-human as co-teachers.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Autobiographies, Ethnography, Canada Natives, Educational Benefits
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Language: English
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