This week’s article, Learning from Place: A Return to Traditional Mushkegowuk Ways of Knowing, is an article that divulges the advantages of intergeneration teaching. This type of knowing and teaching is developing into a broader way of pedagogy, as in teaching in a third space. However, this was a common way of learning by Indigenous Peoples and this is one of the concepts I believe the article wanted the reader to identify. The Cree word, Pasquataskamik is used to transcend the meaning of traditional territory, all the environment, nature and everything it contains. This meaning and knowing was disappearing from the young generation. They were using the word, Noscheemik which was not translating into the complete circle of the space and territory many Elders tried to define. A 10-day river trip with youth, adults and Elders was a key part of reclaiming and re-inhabitation. What was remarkable was the connections, the interactions and the transfer of knowledge between the intergenerational participates. The past, present and future of Pasquataskamik began to hold significance to all the participants. Re-shaping the community, a river, the land, the language and self-determination broadened for all. A cultural inheritance and experience to reaffirm Indigenous ways, forming a kinship between the past, present and future generations to expand on and to be nurtured.

As a teacher in my future classroom I would want to incorporate teaching in a third space and Indigenous ways of knowing. I could do this by having Elders and assistants to come into the classrooms to help in the learning. I would want to establish a collaborative learning environment in which all participants are involved. Not only will students be the learners but also the leaders. Having inclusiveness and fostering knowledge will be a directive I would like to achieve. As a lifelong learner myself I appreciate the information and the successful outcomes that was shared in this recent article. The approaches of learning, knowing and teaching comes to life in articles like this and is impactful for my future as a teacher.