Dorintosh Central School receives grant to fund land-based education research project
Dorintosh Central School received a $20,000 grant from the McDowell Foundation for a new research project called “Developing Sense of Belonging.”
The school will collect data on the effect of traditional Indigenous ways of learning on students’ sense of belonging in their school and community since introducing the concept of land-based learning to the students a few years ago.
Michael Radford, principal of Dorintosh Central School, said they will be using research circles to gather data.
“These essentially are opportunities for students to tell their own narrative around sense of belonging in the setting with an elder and in sharing circles in a teepee,” Radford said.