Aboriginal Ways of Knowing

This is a collection of resources to help you incorporate Aboriginal ways of knowing into your classroom.

Aboriginal ways of knowing, principles of learning, content, and worldviews are intrinsic features of a meaningful, relevant, and socially aware education for all students. They engender the core competencies that BC’s new curriculum focuses on in order for students “to engage in deep learning and life-long learning” (Ministry of Education, https://curriculum.gov.bc.ca/competencies).

First People’s Principle’s of Learning explanation, suggestions, and applications.

Aboriginal Worldview and Perspectives in the Classroom (BC Ministry of Education)

This guide outlines and expresses a wealth of ideas and constructs for leadership, Indigenous pedagogical practices, Aboriginal perspectives and content, and a vision for decolonizing mindsets. Click the image below to access this guide (pdf).

First Peoples Principle of Learning

These nine principles, shown in fnesc’s poster, are guiding pedagogies that honour the Aboriginal ways of knowing and support holistic, connected, and meaningful education to all students.

First Peoples Principles of Learning

Explanations and suggestions on the principles

Jo-Ann L. Chrona’s site “is created to help educators in British Columbia understand how they might incorporate the First Peoples Principles of Learning (FPPL) into their classrooms and schools. Some educators will see that the Principles reflect what they already believe, and are doing in their schools and classrooms. Other educators will see concepts embedded in the principles that challenge some of the post-industrial Euro-centric beliefs about education.”

Traditional Territory Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, specifically Esquimalt Nation and Songhees Nation on which Royal Bay Secondary is built, and the nations that SD62 works with, Beecher Bay SCIA’NEW Nation, T’Sou-ke Nation, and Nuu-chah-nulth Pacheedaht Nation to the west.

We recognize the territory, the First Nations peoples, and thank them for sharing this beautiful land.

Hych’ka – Coast Salish

Kleco Kleco – Nuu-chah-nulth