Just Do It: Anishinaabe Culture-Based Education ...
In an attempt to meet the educational needs of Anishinaabe children and youth, innovative education must be created to specifically reflect Anishinaabe culture and Anishinaabe community realities. The Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Cultural Healing andLearning Program was one of the very few off-reserve...
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Canadian Journal of Native Education
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v36i1.196553 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196553 |
| Summary: | In an attempt to meet the educational needs of Anishinaabe children and youth, innovative education must be created to specifically reflect Anishinaabe culture and Anishinaabe community realities. The Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Cultural Healing andLearning Program was one of the very few off-reserve, culture-based educational spacescreated for Anishinaabe children and youth in Canada.This paper presents the project of visioning, designing, implementing, and evaluating the Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Cultural Healing and Learning Program, located in Burleigh Falls, Ontario. An Anishinaabe medicine wheel construct is usedthroughout the study. A medicine wheel framework is employed in the design and implementation of the program. Additionally, the medicine wheel is used as a theoreticalframework and methodology in the evaluation of the program. Methods used in theprogram evaluation consisted of sharing circles zoith students, parents, and Elders,followed by review circles to review the summaries and findings of ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2013) ... |
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