Pedagogy of the Land

'Pedagogy of the Land' is a course taught by Dr. Celia Haig-Brown at the Faculty of Education in York University. This course explores indigenous understandings of the land as the first teacher. As part of a group work assignment we created this Medicine Wheel Sound Circle to express the concepts and knowledge present in the Anishinaabe medicine wheel, course readings and guest lecturers using visual and auditory content. There are many versions of the medicine wheel among the First Nations, but each one seems to summarise many of the key elements which define our experience with land. It is our hope that this wheel can be a starting point to prompt other students to start their own exploration into the significance of the spaces in which their learning and their life takes place. Our teacher/student group combined certain images from our storied past within this First Nation's medicine wheel, but we do not intend to overwrite our culture unto theirs. In fact, our intention is that others may also explore indigenous thoughts and ideas more closely by examining how they can relate to land from the perspective offered through indigenous knowledge.
The songs in this video are:
"One Voice" sung by the Wailin' Jennys and "Field Song" sung by the Kanenhi:Io Singers

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• Medicine
• Wheel
• 'Pedagogy
• of
• the
• Land'
• First
• Nations
• Land
• Education
• Indigenous
• Knowledge
• Anishinaabe
• Teaching
• Land (song)