Walking Together: FNMI Worldviews

with Carla Badger

Developed by ERLC/ARPDC as a result of a grant from Alberta Education to support implementation

Walking TogetherFirst Nations, Métis and Inuit

Perspectives in CurriculumFNMI Worldviews

15

Our Goals:

1. Define and explore FNMI Worldview

2. Explore the importance of following community protocol

3. Broaden our understanding of what contributes to Worldview

A Professional Development Resource

Please place a clip art piece to show everyone where you reside

Everyone has wisdomWe need everyone’s wisdom for

the wisest resultThere are no wrong answersThe whole is greater than the

sum of its partsEveryone will hear others and be

heardYou can always change your mind

15

1413121110987654321

$1 Million$500,000$250,000$125,000$64,000$32,000$16,000$8,000$4,000$2,000$1,000$500$300$200$100

Welcome to

Who Wants to be a Millionaire

50:50

What does the acronym FNMI stand

for in Education?

50:50

$100

B: First Nations, Métis and Inuit

D: First Name Middle Initial

A: Fig Newton’s Mint Icing

C: First Nations Menu Index

50:50

$200

B: A clear look at an anatomically correct globe

D: A Global Morning Talk show from CBC

A: The view from the elusive Astronautical Pigeon

B: A Collection of beliefs and life held by an individual or group

What is Worldview?

What is FNMI Worldview?

50:50

$300

B: A Global Scan of where the FNMI population reside

D: A collection of FNMI landscape photography

A: A collection of beliefs about life and the Universe, held by FNMI people

C: The First FNMI owned and operated airline

Who would be the best resource of FNMI

Worldview?

50:50

$500

B: National Geographic

D: An FNMI Elder from the territory in which you reside

A: Wikipedia

C: Your superintendant

What is protocol?

50:50

$1000

B: The newest social media website for contacting professional athletes

D:The newest anti-aging line from Proactive Laboratories

A: Proper attire guidelines

C: Procedure for interaction that communicates respect and tradition between two or more people

Lets Take A Guided Tour and Explore The Importance of Protocol, Using the Beginning Together Interactive Section

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/#/fnmi_worldviews/observing_practice/our_words_our_ways Chapter 2 (2:30–6:40)

Speak Out

Please join by sharing: What parts of Wilton’s perspective of Worldview resonated the most with you?

“Our language is a big part of our Worldview, when we understand the language we begin to understand all of life and that to us is literacy.” -William Goodstriker

Open Mic: Why do you think language is so closely connected with Worldview?

FNMI Worldviews Euro-Canadian Worldview

-Verb based language-Holistic (Spiritual, Physical, Emotional, and Mental-Focus on connections, relationships-View life as a cyclical renewal-Literacy is reading and connecting with the land as well as oral tradition

EastSpringInfancy/ChildhoodSpiritual

SouthSummerYouthPhysical

WestFallAdulthoodEmotional

NorthWinterSenior hoodMental

15

Our Goals:

1. Define and explore FNMI Worldview

2. Explore the importance of following community protocol

3. Broaden our understanding of what contributes to Worldview

Reflections

THANK YOU!Next sessions:

Indigenous Pedagogy April 25 4-5 pm

We are all Treaty People May 2 4-5 pm

First Nations, Métis and Inuit CulturesPhone: 780-422-8810

Fax: 780-422-3745Email: Carla.Badger@gov.ab.ca