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recent posts thanksgiving play again learning from indigenous knowledge systems exporting the DDT style of education welcome November 24th, 2010 by cblack Posted in blog One Comment » thanksgiving Share| A thought on Thanksgiving: What would North America be like today if Europeans had tried to learn from Native Americans rather than to conquer and then “teach?
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If Native American wisdom about children and learning – about the ways of teaching through storytelling rather than direct instruction, through example and experience rather than lecture and text, through immersion in community and nature rather than segregation in a school building, and through personal challenge and transformation rather than confinement and obedience – existed today side by side with European-style schools and universities as options among the commonly accepted ways for young people to learn and grow to adulthood?