Indigenous knowledge and stories
Indigenous knowledge systems have remained instrumental in evaluating organically-formed processes of civilization and development. This knowledge is delivered through oral storytelling, and is dependent on memories of culture, traditions, and history.
As education systems migrate to virtual landscapes, there is a need for this knowledge system to be preserved and embedded into digital spaces to continue providing structures for understanding, interpreting, and applying stories that promote sustainable development. This should occur alongside ongoing efforts to deconstruct education systems and learning methods, considering how knowledge, education, and learning need to be reimagined in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precarity.
In this presentation, Wakanyi Hoffman (Founder of The African Folktales Project) challenges development educators by discussing how to decolonize knowledge structures that shape education development projects, taking into account the input of marginalized, local humanitarians from indigenous societies.
