We’ve brought up Indigenous Knowledge and mentioned ways of knowing a few times throughout this series, and hopefully it was understood in the context of each post. Today, for the fifth principle–Learning Recognizes the Role of Indigenous Knowledge–we’re going to go deeper into what ‘Indigenous Knowledge’ means and why it’s important to talk about. Perhaps the best way to describe Indigenous Knowledge, also referred to as Indigenous Ways of Knowing, is holistic;  it is not si

As we delve further into the First Peoples’ Principles of learning, we start to see a pattern of themes–themes like community, mutual...

The third principle of the First Peoples Principles of Learning is “learning involves recognizing the consequences of one’s actions.”...

The second principle states that learning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational (focused on connectedness, on...

Welcome to the first part of our series on decolonizing education. In the introduction post  about this topic, we mentioned the First...

Those of us volunteering and working with ITMP strive everyday to provide inclusive educational support through a lens of decolonization...