Learning in Ethical Space: Reimagining Social Innovation Education
Keywords:
Indigenous innovation, Systems thinking, relational systems thinking, Indigenous pedagogies, Social Innovation EducationAbstract
Social innovation and systems thinking are acknowledged as emerging academic and professional disciplines; however, they reflect ways of knowing that have long existed within Indigenous worldviews. Grounded in relationality, renewal, and ethical responsibility, Indigenous ways of knowing offer rich, complex understandings of systems and transformative change. The author introduces Indigenous pedagogies as living practices and a potential driver for reimagining social innovation. Drawing on personal narrative, Indigenous scholarship, and educational practice, this paper critiques the marginalization of Indigenous knowledge within social innovation education and proposes a trans-systemic approach rooted in ethical space and relational systems thinking.
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