Throughout the Professional Master of Education (Aboriginal Education) program, I have focused my professional inquiry on Indigenizing organizational learning, in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada: Calls to Action, section 92 (business and reconciliation); for the purposes of this course, I will continue to engage in this area of professional inquiry.
Using an Indigenous Medicine Wheel model of inquiry that I developed previously (Figure 1), I intend to engage in inquiry based public reflection of course materials and themes, to further develop my knowledge base in relation to ‘innovation and reconciliation’ using the following research questions as ‘vision’ to drive the inquiry process:
- How does innovation in teaching and learning relate to the reconciliation process for the corporate sector?
- What are the implications for Indigenizing organizational learning?
References
Bell, N.(2014). Teaching by the medicine wheel: Anishinaabe framework for Indigenous education. Education Canada, 54(3), 14-16.
Bell, N. (2013). Just do it: Anishinaabe culture-based education. Canadian Journal of Native Education, 36(1), 36-58.
Davidson, C.M. (2016, August 14). Reflections on Bell: Creating a medicine wheel model of inquiry [Web log post]. Retrieved from: https://waxingadedpoetic.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/reflections-on-bell-creating-a-medicine-wheel-model-of-inquiry/
What a unique and creative way of incorporating the medicine wheel through organizational learning in innovation. It successfully breaks down the key important aspects of Inquiry.
I can’t wait to read more blog posts on your journey through this topic.
-Shannen Wright