ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the project Wekimün: a school with and for Indigenous youth and their communities, a six-year international, intercultural, intergenerational and transdisciplinary collaboration between the Young Lives Research Lab of Canada and the Williche communities of Chiloé archipelago of southern Chile. Developed and implemented with/by/for young Indigenous Williche and their community members and based in the concept of wekimün, meaning ‘new knowledge’ in the Williche language of Mapudungun, this partnership employed community-led needs assessment, project-based learning methods and land-based teaching and learning practices anchored to aspects of relevance and care to create a unique Indigenous school, curriculum and pedagogy.
The school and curriculum that resulted from this work provide a model for just transitions in education for sustainability, a model that could be replicated, on larger and smaller scales, as we make strides towards quality education for all.
