Understanding Aboriginal Learning Ideology Through Storywork with Elders

Authors

  • Marlene R. Atleo University of Manitoba

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11575/ajer.v55i4.55339

Abstract

Five Nuu-chah-nulth Elders engaged in the examination of a Nuu-chah-nulth story for what they considered learning. A network of eight learning archetypes inhabited the story to demonstrate a range of learning strategies. The Elders identified features central to a cultural learning project, which included prenatal care and grandparent teaching, spiritual bathing, partnerships, ritual sites, and ancestor names. Learning strategies were understood as embedded and embodied in the form of characters displaying the archetypes. The storywork process used by the Elders, systematized as phenomenological orienteering and operationalized as metaphorical mapping, was found to be a useful methodology.

Author Biography

Marlene R. Atleo, University of Manitoba

Marlene Atleo is an assistant professor in the Adult and Post Secondary Education Department, Faculty of Education. ?eh ?eh naa tuu kwiss, Ahousaht First Nation.

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How to Cite

Atleo, M. R. (2010). Understanding Aboriginal Learning Ideology Through Storywork with Elders. Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 55(4). https://doi.org/10.11575/ajer.v55i4.55339