Indigenous pedagogies : bringing back the heart

This paper is an attempt to touch on what’s missing from current contemporary dialogue about the student-centered paradigm of higher education and learning. It is an attempt to engage in a conversation that might begin to ‘fill the gaps’ Western pedagogies are unable to fill, because what is required is an approach that is more intuitive to an indigenous epistemological framework; a cultural standpoint that is not only experientially based, holistic, and relational, but social, philosophical, and spiritual.