Land Based Model

Due to my atypical upbringing I experienced different experimental models of education throughout my childhood, which gives me the opportunity to relate my experiences oral traditions. Coincidently, I believe that land based model’s of education work to install oral practices within children and encourage traditional land based relationships. The ability to learn without restrictions also assists in the aid of children learning how to listen and interpret what they hear without having to be guided to a set conclusion or meaning behind the story, rather they can relate it to what the land and their teachers have taught them and grow from that point forward. During my “elementary” age I was not in typical school setting, as I was homeschooled until I entered high school. Though not always land based, homeschooling allows the parents and children to decide which method helps to promote their individual learning. My education was more based on the land and not formal schoolwork. Though, I did have some formal course books, such as mathematics. Other than
But, she writes it allows children to grow into strong independent individuals, “Nishnaabewin … is designed to create self-motivated, self-directed, community-minded…loving citizens, who at their core uphold our ideals around family, community and nationhood” (Simpson, Pp.23, 2014). With this though in mind, it can be explained that Oral teachings and traditional ways of being help to nurture the spirit, but to ensure future security within the system different teachings must also be applied. Experimental and land based models of education can be seen as a contemporary solution to the loss of Indigenous oral teachings and act as a medium between traditional ways of living and current methods of