Keeping the Seventh Fire: Developing an Undergraduate Degree Program for Aboriginal Adult Educators
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v24i2.195894Abstract
This article focuses on the actions currently underway in the development of a Bachelor of Education in Aboriginal Adult Education Degree program (ADED-AB) with the Aboriginal community located in southern Ontario in partnership with Brock University. This is a story of the Wildfire Circle and how the "First Principles of Aboriginal Adult Education" came to be and how they might act as a path to understanding and anticipating the circumstances needed for successful learning experiences. This is also a story of the broader context of what Aboriginal adult education must be, and how Aboriginal education must begin, in order to have meaning, sub stance, and direction for future generations. Finally, this is the story of a spiritual enterprise that is both by its very existence a learning challenge to the prevailing postsecondary world view and a road map for the future.