5 Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Teaching
Indigenization of curriculum requires much more than adding Indigenous content. In an education system that has, since its inception and into the present day, valued Western ways of thinking almost exclusively, Indigenization of curriculum requires us to bring Indigenous ways of thinking, being, and learning into course design. This section provides a discussion of Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies and how these can be interwoven in curriculum design and development.
This section is intended to help you integrate Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies in curriculum design and development. This section includes the following topics:
- The relevance of Indigenous worldviews
- Respectfully creating space for Indigenous knowledge
- Reciprocity and multiple ways of listening
- Indigenous epistemologies
- Indigenous pedagogies
- Ways to integrate Indigenous epistemologies and pedagogies into curriculum design
