I received the attached document from a colleague a few days ago. First Peoples Principles for Learning is a probably the most holistic picture of education that I have seen for some time. It’s beautiful. Our still-stuck-in-Modernism perspective on education would do well to just sit with this for a while and ask ourselves what we are missing and what possibly has been here all along for us to learn if we had ears to hear. I love the attention to intergenerationality, the long term impacts of our learning and actions, the need to pay attention to our stories, our history and memory. Though I have not looked closely, I doubt you would find the word memory in the BC Education Plan. Or how about the sacredness of some knowledge and the need for permission? We live at a time when everyone believes they have a right to access anything, at any time and in any place. Maybe all knowledge is sacred.
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