Learning Through Story: Student Success, Achievement, and Well-Being

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 3:05 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Indigenous Learning Across Contexts (Table 28)

Abstract

This paper focuses on the impacts of story in elementary education from Indigenous perspectives and ways of knowing. This paper demonstrates how Indigenous storywork can be taken up in classrooms as well as the ways Indigenous wholistic and inclusive perspectives of success, achievement and well-being are beneficial for all students. We examine the importance of relationships and focus on Indigenous traditions of thought that contribute to decolonial approaches to understanding student success, achievement and well-being for learners across diverse contexts but particularly for Indigenous learners. Finally, this paper explores what it means to be Indigenous within the context of elementary learning experiences; to create ways of advancing, in respectful and relevant ways, the role of relationality in transforming classroom spaces.

Authors

• Sandra Styres, OISE/University of Toronto

• Ryan Neepin, Wilfrid Laurier University