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Land/water Beliefs; Customary Laws;
Indigenous Structures
resources

sacred grounds

IP communities

Relationships
ANCESTRAL DOMAIN

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 ANCESTRAL DOMAIN
IS NOT JUST A
TERRITORY
BUT A “WEB OF
RELATIONSHIPS”

ancestral domain - based

(earth-based)
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 Culture
 Indigenous Knowledge System
and Practices
 Spirituality

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 LAND
Land is LIFE…Land is ALIVE
The land is a source of
language, ritual, dream,
story, and wisdom of many
different kinds.
The land provides living
beings with all the things they
need to survive well. 

Everything is part of the land in some

way - so we can learn from all these
things equally, though in different ways.
Source: www.tapestryinstitute.org/indigenousworldview.html

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 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

Set of knowledge “that people in a given

community, have developed over time, and
continue to develop based on experience and
adaptation to a local culture and environment”

“This knowledge is used to sustain the

community and its culture and to maintain the
genetic resources necessary for the continued
survival of the community.”

[cited by Barnhardt and Kawagley, 2005]

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 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
 Set of knowledge, skills and values

 developed and sustained through time

 oral and symbolic transmitted through

LANGUAGE

 PASSED ON FROM ONE GENERATION

TO ANOTHER

 directed towards the SURVIVAL of the

community
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 political
spiritual

CULTURE
economic
social
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 Ways of Learning and Knowing
Learning in Community
 Each person’s voice is important.

 Knowledge is not owned by

individuals.

Understanding comes from many

sources.

 Process is more important than

result.
- processes are determined by
circumstances
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 Ways of Learning and Knowing
Intellectual Ways of Knowing

Experiential Ways of Knowing

Spiritual Ways of Knowing

Mythic Ways of Knowing

Integrated Ways of Knowing

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 Implications to
Teaching-Learning Process

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 Purpose of education
 Education for rootedness
 nurtures identity
 owning one’s heritage

 Education for cultural integrity

 Self-determination and assertion

of cultural rights

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 IP EDUCATION
 Kamalayan (Consciousness)
* Kultura – IP identity, self concept *
L.N. bilang relasyon/ugnayan
* Spiritwalidad bilang
paggalang
(reverence)
Tools – teaching-learning
strategies, curriculum,
syllabus, learning plans,
teaching-learning materials,
staff development
Creativity – upang mapa-
unlad ang mga nabanggit
na kamalayan sa pama-
SOURCE: PAMANA KA magitan ng mga tools.
Source: PAMANA KA
IP ROOTED IN HIS IDENTITY

RESPOND TO THE
CHALLENGES OF THE
PRESENT TIME
 …Adok Pagsalamat

… Maraming Salamat

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