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Understanding indigenous pedagogy for inclusion and equity: The International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples / World Tribal Day Special


The observance is held 9 August each year to raise awareness about tribal community and protect their rights, The theme of the observance in 2024 is "The Role of Indigenous Women in the Preservation and Transmission of Traditional Knowledge."

 

According to the United Nations, indigenous peoples are inheritors and practitioners of unique cultures and ways of relating to people and the environment, and they have retained social, cultural, economic and political characteristics that are distinct from those of the dominant societies in which they live.

 

The way to protect their to inclusive and equitable right to quality education to base education on on indigenous sociology, psychology and pedagogy. Here are haiku to understand the precept of indigenous pedagogy

  

HAIKU ON INDIGENOUS PEDAGOGY

 

Use for tribal kids -

Indigenous pedagogy -

Link learning-n-culture

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Contextual learning

Place-situated learning

That is the best way

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Local place, culture,

Dialect, folk methods become

Springboards of learning

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Focus on context

For pedagogical framework

That's indigenous

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Teachers must first learn

From the children, their context

To design learning

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Teachers must design

Short transitional   courses

To bridge home-school gaps

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