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Anishinaabe culture, worldview and teachings provide a model of environmental education from an Indigenous perspective. This chapter discusses two educational programmes, the Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin Cultural Healing and Learning Program (a JK–12 school) and the Learning From the Land and Indigenous People alternative settings placement for teacher candidates, to consider a spiritual connection to environmental education through the 4Rs: respect, relationship, reciprocity and responsibility.
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La culture, la vision du monde et les enseignements des Anishinaabes fournissent un modèle d’éducation environnementale partant d’une perspective autochtone. Deux programmes éducatifs sont présentés ici, le Programme d’apprentissage et de guérison culturelle Anishinaabe (une école qui va de la maternelle à la 12e année) et le programme Apprendre de la terre et des peuples autochtones (une possibilité de placement différent pour les stagiaires en enseignement), afin d’envisager un lien spirituel à l’éducation environnementale par le biais des 4 R: le respect, les relations, la réciprocité et la responsabilité.
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Bell, N. (2019). Anishinaabe Bimaadiziwin: Living Spiritually with Respect, Relationship, Reciprocity and Responsibility. In: Karrow, D., DiGiuseppe, M. (eds) Environmental and Sustainability Education in Teacher Education. International Explorations in Outdoor and Environmental Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25016-4_5
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