Teaching Where You Are

Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies

Shannon Leddy, Lorrie Miller

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University of Toronto Press
26 February 2024

Indigenous peoples; Philosophy & theory of education; Curriculum planning & development

Teaching Where You Are offers a guide for non-Indigenous educators to work in good ways with Indigenous students and provides resources across curricular areas to support all students.

In this book, two seasoned educators, one Indigenous and one settler, bring to bear their years of experience teaching in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary contexts to explore the ways in which Indigenous and Slow approaches to teaching and learning mirror and complement one another.

Using the holistic framework of the Medicine Wheel, Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller illustrate the ways in which interdisciplinary thinking, a focus on experiential learning, and the thoughtful application of the 4Rs - Respect, Relevance, Reciprocity, and Responsibility - can bring us back to the principle of teaching people, not subjects. Bringing forth the ways in which colonialism and cognitive imperialism have shaped Canadian curriculum and consciousness, the book offers avenues for the development of decolonial literacy to support the work of Indigenising education. In considering the importance of engaging in decolonising and Indigenising approaches to education through Slow and Indigenous pedagogies using the lens of place-based and land-based education, Teaching Where You Are presents a text useful for teachers and educators grappling with the ongoing impacts of colonialism and the soul-work of how to decolonise and rehumanise education in meaningful ways.

By: Shannon Leddy, Lorrie Miller
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781487549947
ISBN 10: 1487549946
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 26 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shannon Leddy is an associate professor of Art Education at the University of British Columbia. Lorrie Miller is a sessional lecturer in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews for Teaching Where You Are: Weaving Indigenous and Slow Principles and Pedagogies

"""Shannon Leddy and Lorrie Miller weave a beautiful metaphorical tapestry of Slow and Indigenous ways of knowing and being that simultaneously honours each framework's distinct features and identifies complementary principles, teachings, and pedagogies to create exciting new educational possibilities. In this era of truth and reconciliation, holistic pedagogies are needed to offer hope, love, care, and deep ways of feeling, being, knowing, and doing, which this book offers, and so much more."" - Jo-ann Archibald, Professor Emeritus of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia ""Teaching Where You Are is a must-read for educators and preservice teachers who are dedicated to responsibly providing for Indigenous ways and perspectives in their professional practice. With recognition of the discomfort educators might feel approaching Indigeneity in their work, Leddy and Miller acknowledge and help us, as settlers, to activate the process of unpacking and unlearning colonizing perspectives. This book offers a pathway of knowledge for teachers to develop the self and nurture authentic, human approaches to walking alongside Indigenous wisdom and cross-cultural understanding in their classrooms."" - Sheryl Smith-Gilman, Associate Dean of Academics, Faculty of Education, McGill University"