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October 14, 2024
As we commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day in the U.S.A. today, The Big Drum Nation Collective is delighted to highlight Caribbean Yard Campus, an innovative educational enterprise designed to network traditional knowledge systems in the Caribbean.
The great cultural diversity of the Caribbean has bequeathed its people’s ways of being, seeing, knowing, and doing, which are informed by places of origin, historical conditions of arrival in the Caribbean, and encounters with other cultures in this space. This body of knowledge and lived experiences, know-how, wisdom, and values constitutes traditional and indigenous knowledge that continues to shape the people and cultures of the region. However, it’s important to note that mass access to formal education is a relatively recent experience, dating less than fifty years. Yet, the opinion shapers and ‘irresponsible elites’ fixate on “expel[ling] common sense from the schoolyard” and beyond, hence the need for Caribbean Yard Campus.com.
Now, let’s delve into an insightful interview with Caribbean Yards Campus facilitator Rawle Gibbons, conducted by Big Drum Nation editors Winthrop (troppy) Holder and Martin (snow) Felix, and read Monty Guy’s A Reflection on Rawle Gibbons’ Caribbean Campus Yard Interview.
Awesome, thought-provoking, deeply our own and urgently important. Thanks
On the day we celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day it was refreshing to listen to this informative interview which reminds us of the importance of acknowledging the deep knowledge and richness of “yard culture” and marginalized and indigenous communities as the locus of education from from the “bottom up”.