Land-based Learning: Perspectives of Place Within a STEAM-focused Teacher Education Pedagogy (65831)
Session Chair: Sharon Pelech
Friday, January 6, 2023 (14:45)
Session: Session 4
Room: 317A
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The purpose of our research is to investigate how educators’ experiences in field studies with community partners can inform an interdisciplinary educational program (STEAM-Science, Educational Technologies, Arts, Mathematics) based on a curriculum of land/place (Chambers, 2008). Place-based education (Emekauwa, 2004) is an approach to teaching that is grounded in the context of community and environment and seeks to help not only students but also communities through employing students, educators, scientists and other interested community members in solving community problems (Denise & Harris, 1989). However, emerging research suggests that place-based education is limited because it does not critique colonial legacies in theoretical frameworks of place (Calderon, 2014). Indeed, many Indigenous scholars are replacing the term place with land and argue that land-based pedagogies promote the decolonization of education (Ballantyne, 2014) by recognizing the intimate relationship that Indigenous peoples have with the land. One challenge with land-based pedagogies is the role non-Indigenous peoples have in this approach to the decolonization of education. Our research, in a western Canadian context, explores this tension as we come to a deeper and shared understanding of our co-responsibility within Treaty 7 relationships. This proposal is strongly linked to the special theme of "Resilience" as we draw on a curriculum of place (Penetito, 2009) as a theoretical framework in redefining our diverse conceptualizations of place and integrating Indigenous knowledge systems and community land/place-based education.
Themes included:
• Impact of Land-based Learning- Place as Pedagogy
• Diverse Ways of Knowing- Integration Through Place
• Resilience-reconsidering Place
Authors:
Kevin OConnor, Mount Royal University, Canada
About the Presenter(s)
Dr Kevin OConnor is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at Mount Royal University in Canada
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