Learning and teaching together : weaving indigenous ways of knowing into education / Michele T.D. Tanaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanaka, Michele T. D., 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--Canada.

Multicultural education.

Teaching.

Critical pedagogy.

Canada.

Critical pedagogy--Canada.

Teaching--Canada.

Physical Description:

xxi, 236 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2016]

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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Orienting to place and pedagogical purpose

Opening oneself to indigenous ways of being-knowing-doing

Rethinking learner-teacher relationships

Invoking good intention and conscious action

Focusing on how and why we teach

Trusting learners and remembering wholeness

Coming together in safe enough spaces

Continuing reflection towards sustainability

Preparing self and community for dispositional change

Indigenizing practice amid classroom challenges

Re-envisioning (teacher) education

Touchstones for future teaching.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-224) and index.

Other Format:

Tanaka, Michele T. D., 1959-, author. Learning and teaching together.

ISBN:

9780774829519

0774829516

OCLC:

956556429