Rites of Passage, Aboriginal Education and Learning for the 21st Century: Walkabout as a Radical—and Workable—Alternative
The Walkabout Program is an alternative and experiential learning practice that helps students to develop necessary skills for authentic learning and real world preparation through the completion of six learning passages. This aboriginal-based program celebrates the vital transition–or passage–from...
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| Summary: | The Walkabout Program is an alternative and experiential learning practice that helps students to develop necessary skills for authentic learning and real world preparation through the completion of six learning passages. This aboriginal-based program celebrates the vital transition–or passage–from adolescence to adulthood. The six learning passages include philosophical, practical, emotional/physical/spiritual challenge, career exploration, community/global response, and creative endeavour. Although its primary focus is to challenge First Nations educators to rethink status quo schooling, the Program has equally beneficial opportunities for all students. Education designed as a continuous lifelong process requires an approach to teaching and learning suitable for such a long-range perspective. (Gibbons, 1990) |
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