There’s’ been much said and debated about online education during COVID but First nation or indigenous education not so much.

First nation education is problematic enough, the need for prevailing authorities to insist on a Westernised education model, learning and assessment style is often in conflict and mostly in disharmony with indigenous learners and traditions.

Add to that the complexity of teaching in remote geographical spaces in often under funded or under resourced schools, a mandated curriculum that is heavily western and at best, but mostly not, inclusive of indigenous language, customs, history and resect.

On the back of a foresight strategy program I’m consulting on with a Canadian based Higher Education provider who’s majority students are First Nation, Hong Kong Radio 3’s Phil Whelan and I chat about how great education can combine the best of both world’s and blend the formality and rigour of a Western Education with the land based mainly oral learning traditions of a first nation population and the advice I’m sharing with them, in exploration of the Future of Indigenous Higher Education.

Listen now (16 minutes 47 seconds)