Indigenous land-based pedagogy is an approach, documented among Indigenous peoples across North America, Australia and elsewhere, that situates learning directly on the land through activities such as hunting, gathering, seasonal travel and ceremony, treating the land itself, and the relationships and stories attached to particular places, as a primary teacher rather than a setting in which lessons could equally happen. Contemporary Indigenous-led schools and land-based education programs, expanding since the late twentieth century as part of broader Indigenous education-sovereignty movements, draw explicitly on this older practice rather than reconstructing it from outside sources.
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Central QuestionWhat can a learner's direct relationship with land, place and traditional knowledge systems teach that being taught about that land from inside a classroom cannot 1 Most Effective ForIndigenous communities across North America using place-specific programs grounded in their own territory to assert cultural identity and self-determination 1 Sources
1. Land-based education - Wikipedia
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Land-based education is an educational approach that emphasizes learning through direct relationships with the natural environment, local landscapes, and the knowledge systems associated with them.
Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples of North America section
one of the ways Indigenous communities across North America continue to assert their identity and their right to self-determination and strengthen their people.
In Group: Culturally Responsive and Multicultural Pedagogies, Lead
Land-based education is an approach to education that supports cultural resurgence and provides resistance to the effects of colonialism and displacement that have separated Indigenous peoples from their lands.
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