Journeys Around the Medicine Wheel: A Story of Indigenous Research in a Western University

Walker, Polly O.

doi:10.1017/s1326011100001356

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“…For example, there are the four basic elements of life -earth, air, fire, water-which are essential for the creation and sustainment of life (Regnier, 1995). There are four cardinal directions-north, south, east, and west (Walker, 2001). The four directions correspond to spring, summer, autumn, and fall, which also represent the four stages of human life: child, youth, adult, and elder.…”

Section: The Aboriginal Holistic Worldviewmentioning

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Education for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: An Overview of Four Realms of Success

Preston

2016

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education

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In line with an Aboriginal worldview of interconnectivity, I outline successful educational programs, policies, and services for Aboriginal peoples in Canada. These programs and initiatives are presented within four thematic areas related to (a) early childhood education, (b) Aboriginal pedagogy, language, and culture (throughout kindergarten to Grade 12), (c) postsecondary education, and (d) governance and partnerships. These issues are then positioned within the concept of ethical space. The insight from this information is intended to assist teachers, educational leaders, and policy makers in promoting ongoing educational achievement for Aboriginal learners.

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Section: The Aboriginal Holistic Worldviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Education for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: An Overview of Four Realms of Success

Preston

2016

Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education

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“…As Philip Walker (2001) points out, "The sacred aspects of indigenous experience are directly silenced when they are eliminated from formal research, relegated to religion or labeled as lacking rigor" (p. 19). In fact, the hegemonic atomistic materialism and aversion to spirituality of Western knowledges is well known by indigenous peoples who participate in academia.…”

Section: Indigenous Knowledgesmentioning

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Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

Breidlid¹

2013

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The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and Othering of other epistemologies.Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across the globe. The book queries the sustainability of hegemonic epistemology both in the classrooms in the global South as well as in the face of the imminent ecological challenges of our common earth, and discusses whether indigenous knowledge systems would better serve the pupils in the global South and help promote sustainable development.

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“…Other Indigenous scholars (Absolon & Herbert, 1997;Walker, 2001) -again both those within social work education and those within other areas of the humanities -write about the medicine wheel as a significant research methodology. As Walker (2001, p. 19) explains: in the Medicine Wheel methodology, the East represents the Spiritual aspects of experience.…”

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Centring Aboriginal Worldviews in Social Work Education

Baskin

2005

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As Aboriginal peoples gain more access to schools of social work, the academy needs to respond to their educational needs. This involves incorporating Aboriginal worldviews and research methodologies into social work education. This paper focuses on one definition of worldviews according to Aboriginal epistemology and implements an anti-colonial discursive framework in its analysis of education. It also critiques both the role of social work in the lives of Aboriginal peoples and the goals of social work education. Through the findings of a recent research project with Aboriginal social work students in Ontario, Canada, it raises key components that need to be addressed in the academy and provides ways in which this can be achieved. The overall theme flowing through this paper is that of decolonisation whereby reclamation of the belief that all peoples of the world have much to offer one another and life is a reciprocal process comes to the surface. In addition, the paper stresses the importance of this content being taught to all social work students and its relevance to all areas of Indigenous humanities.

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Journeys Around the Medicine Wheel: A Story of Indigenous Research in a Western University

Cited by 18 publications

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Education for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: An Overview of Four Realms of Success

Education for Aboriginal Peoples in Canada: An Overview of Four Realms of Success

Education, Indigenous Knowledges, and Development in the Global South

Centring Aboriginal Worldviews in Social Work Education

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