WORKSHOP: “Land is Our First Teacher”: Teaching Indigenous Art Studio & Art History Online
As Jennifer Wemigwans argues in A Digital Bundle: Protecting and Promoting Indigenous Knowledge Online (2018), the Internet can play a vital role in the transmission of Indigenous Knowledge, at the same time that it can pose risks, ethical questions and challenges as educators shift their teaching online. For those teaching Indigenous art or art history in remote or hybrid courses, the question of how we teach is an especially urgent one. This interactive workshop is a starting point for developing strategies for creating accessible, inclusive, and active remote classrooms that position education as the vehicle for sustaining cultural knowledges. We ask: How do we teach Indigenous land-based knowledge online? How can online pedagogy enact Indigenous Knowledges? What specific assignments and strategies can we employ to address these concerns?
This workshop was facilitated by Devon Smither and Jackson Two Bears of the University of Lethbridge online on Friday, November 27th at 11:00am (PST), 12:00pm MST.
Have a look through the slides:
Check out some of the resources provided to and generated by the workshop:
Workshop Summary of participant generated ideas
Yatta Kanu, Integrating Aboriginal perspectives into the school curriculum: Purposes, possibilities, and challenges (UofT, 2011)
