Land-Based Approaches to Education Flashcards
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Discuss the main points of Dr. Sarah Hunt’s lecture: How does it relate to other content in our course?
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- Restoring fractured relationships with the land
-Acts in direct contestation to settler colonialism and its drive to eliminate indigenous life and indigenous claims to land
-Land as a pedagogy as a method of teaching or knowing: relationship building with land
-Fostering Indigenous resurgence
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What is Dechinta?
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3
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What is Indigenist vs Indigenizing?
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Indigenist is a land based model where you start with the land your own and the knowledge
that has been there for thousands of years. A worldview that acknowledges and recognizes that connect to the land as a relation of ours. Honouring and respecting that relationship and learning from it.
Indigenizing university education with its colonial European model roots by adding in Indigenous content. Place based education includes a western approach.
