INPE Symposium: Panel on Land-based Education
Date: October 24th, 2023
Times: 1 PM in Whitehorse, Yukon; 4 PM in Toronto; 9 PM in London; and 9 AM on Wednesday 25th in Auckland, NZ, and 4 AM in Hong Kong on the 25th.
Duration: two hours
Co-organizers: Jeff Stickney (University of Toronto), and Yulia Nesterova, (University of Glasgow)
Background on the topic: Forms vary with cultures and places
Land Based Education in Denendeh: Interview with Dr. Glen Coulthard
https://www.nccie.ca/videos/land-based-education-in-denendeh-interview-with-dr-glen-coulthard/
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To access the discussion, Zoom details will be sent out a few days prior.
Panelists on Land-based Education:
1. Mere Berryman, Director of Poutama Pounamu, University of Waikato, University of Waikato, Te Kura Toi Tangata School of Education, New Zealand, whose Iwi (tribe) is Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Whare.
Understanding whenua (land): whenua ki te whenua (from birth to death)
https://profiles.waikato.ac.nz/mere.berryman
2. David Taufui Mikato Fa’avae, University of Auckland, New Zealand, who is of Tongan and Samoan heritages with heritage links to Niue, living in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Tauhi fonua: caring for educational sense–making from–with–through fonua (land).
https://profiles.auckland.ac.nz/d-faavae
3. Amanda Buffalo, University of Toronto, working mostly with Kaska Dena Kayah (Kaska people’s land) in Yukon Territory, Canada, but whose home is located in Kwanlin Dün/Ta’an Kwach’an Keyí (Kwanlin Dün and Ta’an Kwach’an land).
Dena Kayah, Dena K'eh (Dena Land, Dena Ways)
https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/sje/about/news/sje-edd-graduate-amanda-buffalo-wins-2022-national-womens-studies-association-us
4. Danielle Denichaud, University of Toronto, Faciliator of Conscious Bodies Methodology, Dreamwalker Dance; Facilitator of Shamanu, Earth Wisdom Teachings, The Living Centre.
Eco-Spiritual Somatic education: Connecting to the Earth through our bodies
https://www.thelivingcentre.com/about-us/facilitators/danielle-denichaud/
Agenda:
1. Opening welcome & reminder of the CFP for INPE 2024 - INPE Executive
2. Jeff Stickney: Brief remarks on hermeneutics - Being open to hearing Indigenous voices; reminder of the centrality of language in Indigenous Land-based education.
Check the world map here to see the Indigenous land on which you reside and/or work: https://native-land.ca/
3. Yulia Nesterova: Quick overview of her work and current book project on Indigenous rights in practicing Land-based Education around the world.
4. Panelists speak in rotation: approximately 20 minutes each
5. Breakout rooms to formulate questions for the speakers, moderated by our team: 20 minutes
6. Panelists listen to and respond to questions (half hour)
7. Next steps: Invitation for educators to consider doing place-based and somatic education without equating these pedagogies with Land-based education.
8. Closing activity (15-20 minutes) – Danielle Denichaud - Embodied meditative practice for welcoming our authentic felt experience into relationship with our shared Earth.
