Special Course in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Narrativity, Indigeneity and Ecoliteracy
| EDCP 585E (032) Instructor: Peter Cole
Special Course in Curriculum and Pedagogy: Narrativity, Indigeneity and Ecoliteracy Mon (16:30 – 19:30) |
| This seminar examines the coming together of narrativity, Indigeneity, and ecoliteracy. For Indigenous peoples, ecological ethnicities and others intimately connected with the land, stories are linked rhizomatically with their sources and with one another as a way of acknowledging inter-relationality, locality and interdependency. Being able to ‘read’ the land, the sky, the currents of the waters, how a raven flies, how a fish swims, the presence or not of insects, moss, lichen, bark, accustomed sounds, the signs of presence or absence, the freshness of tracks and traces, the weather, changing seasons and the predicative ‘meanings’ inscribed within storying have always been key aspects of Indigenous pedagogies. Readings and other course material will draw on primarily indigenous knowings and practices. Field trips will encourage students to engage their visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, intuitional and spiritual senses. The experiential offers an opportunity to connect, resituate, and regenerate connections with the human, non-human and more-than-human worlds not just as concepts, but as intra-actions of mutuality and reciprocity.Students will respond critically to the stories, films and other course materials, and will be encouraged to create their own ecoliteracy narratives grounded in their own interests, experiences, cultural knowings, histories, geographies and ecologies. |