uLead 2017

This session will outline and go over The Edwin Parr Composite School Land Based Learning Experience. This program was developed to introduce staff and students to an Indigenous paradigm of learning by engaging students at a deeper level of participation in which they live fully and consciously. The Land Based program is predicated upon a holistic lifestyle approach, utilizing four quadrants to acquire knowledge: physical, spiritual, cognitive and emotional. From opportunities such paddling, survival skills,traditional aboriginal food preparation , tee pee building,First Nation crafts, firearm safety combined with core curriculum classes instructed via cooperative methods; students used the ‘land as text’ as a means for experiential education.