This seems to be a given, but I think it needs to be mentioned in my blogposts (as I’m sure it has been in others). This is our guidepost as educators; it is something we all need to be mindful of in our roles in schools and we need to make sure that students know that it is taken seriously so that they will also start to incorporate it into their ways of learning and thinking. It will also take time:
“This investigation is likely to happen incrementally over time, as the pedagogical approach articulated and practised within the local communities will not necessarily be set out in an easy-to-summarize form. Ultimately, one important conclusion for students to draw is that pedagogy in First Nations societies is both dynamic and culturally specific (i.e., grounded in a distinctive language and way of looking at the world).” http://www.fnesc.ca/first-peoples-principles-of-learning/