Indigenous Worldviews
Overview
Every people has a way of knowing, seeing, explaining, and living in the world. They have distinct values and different ideas about what is important in life.
This interactive module will explore cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes in Indigenous worldviews.
Learning Module
Learning Outcomes
- Upon successful completion of this module, learners should be able to:
- Recognize your own worldview;
- Appreciate why Canadians should understand Indigenous worldviews;
- Discern Indigenous ways from western worldviews;
- Identify commonalities in worldviews shared among indigenous people
Module Topics
- Understanding worldviews
- Indigenous worldviews
- Creation stories
- Indigenous languages
- Indigenous ways and western worldviews
- Why Indigenous worldviews matter?
- Holding space for Indigenous worldviews
- Indigenous worldviews and education
Module
Resource List
- Laying the Ground (Video)
- A Word of Caution (Video)
- Why Indigenous Worldviews Matter (Video)
- The Origins of Culture: An Exploration of the Ktunaxa Creation Stories (YouTube)
- The Ojibway Creation Story (YouTube)
- The Creation Story (YouTube)
- Language is Our Life Line | Joye Walkus | TEDxVictoria (YouTube)
- Indigenous & Western Worldviews (Video)
- Education Indigenous to Place: Western Science Meets Native Reality
- United Nations Declaration on the rights of Indigenous People (PDF)
- Indigenous Worldviews & Education (Video)
- Indigenous Worldviews & Education (PDF)
Indigenous Education Resources by Jean-Paul Restoule is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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