My research argues that conceptual-based, practice-based and, importantly, student-centered pedagogies offer possibilities for greater educational success when strengthened by ethical foundations. Indigenous Peoples’ ethical and values-based Intellectual traditions continue embedded in their languages. Their goals are to “seek life,” not in a universe but through a multiverse perception (Cajete) (link on poster). Multi-verse thinking is abundant, creative, diverse and inclusive, linking intellectually fertile worlds for expanded understandings. The ultimate goal is peace, balance and well-being for all life. Curriculum is co-created. Together we imagine transformative possibilities to current challenging times. My L/A/R/T-ography model (graphic on poster) (Land as teacher/Art process/Relational, Responsive, Reflective and Reciprocal Research – contrary to extractive research process/Teaching as collaborative/and “graphy” as in writing) helps students work with four spiral-like conceptual circles drawn from Indigenous Peoples’ Intellectual Traditions to encourage learning with the whole mind, heart, body and spirit of human being (student work samples on poster). Students are Salish students in four Interior Salish Language Fluency Proficiency Degrees, the first such degrees anywhere, and non-Indigenous students. Salish Peoples’ epistemological and ontological concepts (see poster) such as tmixʷ/ téméxʷ, all living beings, constitute existence (model on poster). These concepts inform a newly published, open-access, multi-modal writing guide (QR link on poster). My interdisciplinary pedagogy takes courage from innovative work of French feminist and ethnography theorists. Indigenous Peoples’ pedagogies coupled with France’s democratic principles and history, offer hope for an active, participatory global democratic future, grounded in renewed millennia-honed concepts for a climate future, habitable for all.

Authors:
Kerrie Charnley, University of British Columbia, Canada

About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Kerrie Charnley is an Associate Professor of Teaching at The University of British Columbia in Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. Dr. Charnley's general interests are language and literacy and land and arts-based research.

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