Learning From Place: Developing a Relationship With the Land and Our Partners

• In Event: 75.038 - Connecting With and Learning From Community Through Self-Study

Abstract

The purpose of our research is to investigate how teacher candidates’ experiences in STEAM field studies with community partners can inform our work with an integrated practicum semester based on a curriculum of place. Learning from place emphasizes a relationship with the land (Blood & Chambers, 2006), something deeply respected in Indigenous communities and something absent from much of place-based education. Through self-study research, we explore this tension as we come to a deeper and shared understanding of our co-responsibility within Treaty 7 relationships. Our project seeks to close this gap by considering varying perspectives of place as it informs STEAM teacher education pedagogy.

Author

• Kevin O'Connor, Mount Royal University