Interview · South Dakota · Cheryl Medearis · OSEU 1
Themes: Land & stewardship, Storytelling & oral tradition, Education & learning, Values & generosity, Culture & continuity, Community & responsibility, Listening & observation, Children & young people
Learn About questions
What is the Wolakota Project?
How can the WoLakota Project help in teacher education, science, math and social studies courses?
Why does education often not address the “Land Base”?
What are the reasons it’s important for children to learn to take care of the land?
Are there arguments that care for the land is not an important lesson for children to learn? What are those?
Learn From questions
What experiences have you had in school as a student or as a teacher that have addressed human beings’ relationship or responsibility toward the land?
What stores concerning respect and stewardship did you learn growing up?
How do you think the physical place where you grew up impacts your life work today?
To what degree should “care for the land” be a focus in the classes you teach? Why do you feel this way?
Transcripts
Addressing OSEU One with Cheryl Medearis
Watch this interview on YouTubeI really believe that the Wolakota Project has reinvigorated that piece. I think it is something that we use very strongly. I've shared that with not only our teacher education candidates, but also with our science and math and social studies instructors across the institution. We have a rich, beautiful land base, and very little in traditional education talks about that.
So the stories, the respect for the land, the respect for giving back to the land and being good stewards of that land is something that I have tried very hard in my position to share, because it's something I carry in my heart, you know, being raised in South Dakota and to help our young children see how important it is to take care of that land.
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OSEU 1: INTERVIEW WITH CHERYL MEDARIS
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Addressing OSEU 1
Cheryl Medearis
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Addressing OSEU 1
Addressing OSEU One with Cheryl Medearis
I really believe that the Wolakota Project has reinvigorated that piece. I think it is
something that we use very strongly. I've shared that with not only our teacher
education candidates, but also with our science and math and social studies instructors
across the institution. We have a rich, beautiful land base, and very little in traditional
education talks about that.
So the stories, the respect for the land, the respect for giving back to the land and being
good stewards of that land is something that I have tried very hard in my position to
share, because it's something I carry in my heart, you know, being raised in South
Dakota and to help our young children see how important it is to take care of that land.