Tuesday, 29 November 2016

Ways of learning to be human with each other

This post is to collect links to ways of learning that place us in relation to each other and the planet.
It is an ongoing collection, fluid, and may be changed or corrected as any point.

Dwayne Trevor Donald: assoc prof of education Alberta University of Paperchase Cree and Norwegian heritage. Proposes indigenous métissage as a methodology for learning using life writing to make stories that are braided together to show the relationships between all story makers. As example he uses objects to prompt the stories which show how (Aboriginal - Canadian) relations are 'a lot more complicated than we are led to believe'.

Dwayne Trevor Donald: 'ethical relationality is an ecological understanding of human relationality that does not deny difference, but rather seeks to more deeply understand how our different histories and experiences position us in relation to each other. This form of relationality is ethical because it does not over look or invisibilize the particular historical, cultural, and social contexts from which a particular person understands and experiences living in the world, It puts these considerations at the forefront of engagements across frontiers of difference.'
'Forts Curriculum, and Indigenous Métissage: Colonization of Aboriginal-Canadian Relations in Educational Contexts', First Nations Perspectives 2, 1 (2009), 1-24 (6)

Educating students with one of Canada's Indigenous themed education programmes

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Friday, 18 November 2016

Muprt and kakistocracy

Collection of links for articles, responses to the ontological clash that has arrived in orange trumpis hystericus

Did not vote map.
Total turnout 56.9%
Percentage of eligible voters: Did not vote 43.1% | trump 26.02% | Hillary 26.27%

Robin Lustig column : "thanks ...to Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker, I have at least learned a new word this week: kakistocracy. It means ‘government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.’"

David Remnick in The New Yorker.. Obama 'this is not the apocalypse'
History has a long arc.

The New Yorker Sixteen writers...

Saturday, 5 November 2016

Evidence of settlement in Flinders Ranges

A rock shelter in the Flinders Ranges - Warratyi - shows settlement around 49,000 years ago along with evidence of megafauna
Adnyamathanha Traditional Lands Association worked with archaeologists to find artefacts andfossils showing habitation 49, 000 to 46,000 years ago.
Report here 

Genome study connects to wave of migration from Africa 72,000 years ago
Professor Eske Willerslev of the University of Cambridge explains

Indigenous design | agencies | processes

 IDIA Indigenous Design & Innovation Aotearoa Local Contexts Frameworks for culturally appropriate engagement with cultural heritage he...