Walking Pedagogy as Method: Learning with Land, Sea, and Community
As part of BIRGEJUMPI’s work on Indigenous-led methodologies, NDHU hosted an online seminar with activist-scholar Yih-Ren Lin, focusing on Walking Pedagogy—a land-based approach rooted in Tayal knowledge and the concept of Gaga (Tayal law).
Contributors
Project member: Wasiq Silan, Britt Kramvig,Naja Dyrendom Graugaard,Paarnaq Rosing Jakobsen and Wenche Marie Hætta
Sammendrag
Walking Pedagogy emphasizes movement, care, and learning with the environment. It’s not just walking, but an embodied, relational practice that reconnects people to land, memory, and community.
The seminar explored how this method, based on millet cultivation and Tayal law, resonates across Indigenous territories. In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), for example, walking may be replaced by sailing or sea-based movement, reflecting local relationships to seascapes.
This shared focus on movement strengthens BIRGEJUMPI’s commitment to ethical, sustainable, and inclusive research practices rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and being.
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