INFUSING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND EPISTEMOLOGIES: LEARNING FROM TEACHERS IN NORTHERN ABORIGINAL HEAD START CLASSROOMS
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Indigenous pedagogy, Aboriginal Head Start, Indigenous languages, connections to placeAbstract
Five Aboriginal Head Start early childhood educators from a northern Canadian community participated in interviews for the purpose of informing non-Indigenous teachers’ classroom teaching. Their observations and experiences highlight the importance of learning from and on the land alongside family members, and of family stability and showing acceptance of all children. Additionally, participants talked of the impact of residential schools on their families in terms of loss of their Indigenous language, and their attempts to learn and to teach the children in their classrooms the Indigenous languages and teachings.
INFUSER LES CONNAISSANCES ET LES ÉPISTÉMOLOGIES AUTOCHTONES : APPRENDRE DES ENSEIGNANTS DANS LES SALLES DE CLASSE DU PROGRAMME D’AIDE PRÉSCOLAIRE DES AUTOCHTONES DU NORD
Cinq éducateurs de la petite enfance autochtones d’une communauté du Nord canadien ont participé à des entrevues dans le but d’informer les enseignants non-autochtones de l’enseignement en classe. Leurs observations et leurs expériences soulignent l’importance d’apprendre de la terre et sur la terre aux côtés des membres de la famille, de la stabilité de la famille et de l’acceptation de tous les enfants. De plus, les participants ont parlé de l’impact des pensionnats sur leurs familles en termes de perte de leur langue indigène et de leurs tentatives d’apprendre et d’enseigner aux enfants dans leurs classes les langues et les enseignements indigènes.
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