Week 9: Respect, Humour, Sharing, and the Paths We Walk Together

November 30, 2025

As we move toward the later chapters of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy by Goulet and Goulet (2014), I find myself noticing how the teachings shared by Elders in our EDL 829 class continue to echo, deepen, and illuminate the ideas in the text. These past couple of weeks, Elder Helper Roland … More Week 9: Respect, Humour, Sharing, and the Paths We Walk Together

Week 8: Learning with Elders: Reflection, Balance, and Lifelong Learning

November 6, 2025

This week’s readings and discussions wove together theory, practice, and lived experience through Chapter 10 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy by Goulet and Goulet (2014) and the teachings shared by Elder Shelly Belhumuer, a Métis Elder from Saskatchewan. Both the text and Elder Shelly’s reflections offered a powerful reminder that learning … More Week 8: Learning with Elders: Reflection, Balance, and Lifelong Learning

Week 7: Learning with the Land, the Community, and the Elders

October 30, 2025

This week, as we explored Chapter 9 of Teaching Each Other, I found myself reflecting again on what it means to connect students to learning through relationship and relevance. The case studies in this chapter focused on learning in the community, learning on the land, and learning from Elders bring to life the principle that … More Week 7: Learning with the Land, the Community, and the Elders

Week 5: Learning in Relation: Stories, Weather, and Community

October 16, 2025

This week, I revisited Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of Teaching Each Other: Nehinuw Concepts & Indigenous Pedagogy. I found myself returning to the idea that teaching and learning are living, relational acts. Goulet and Goulet write about classrooms as communities of belonging where knowledge is built collectively and where the relationships between people, place, … More Week 5: Learning in Relation: Stories, Weather, and Community