The Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) has published a new learning-focused framework—they learn—to support the work of friendship centres across the province. The framework uses the story of an individual named Cedar to demonstrate how the model used by friendship centres works. The framework serves as a guide for educational and learning-focused initiatives and directives, including the development of curriculum, classroom and workshop teaching methods, and the sharing of cultural teachings. “We expect that the stories contained in the framework will leave some folks with more questions than answers. That is a good thing,” write the OFIFC framework authors. “The framework is not meant to be prescriptive or universal in its application, it is meant to give us language to talk about Indigenous teaching and learning, Indigenous ways of knowing, with each other. It is an exercise of exploring our own alignment with the learning principles and concepts being examined.”
