THE CULTURAL CURRICULUM PROJECT

We believe that cultural knowledge is transformative and essential to humanity’s growth and civic responsibility while living as a global community.

Building a digital library of the worlds most precious knowledge banks one donation at a time.

Our shared vision is to ensure that the indigenous knowledge of our world is co-developed, recorded, and responsibly distributed, with the intention to expand and deepen our connection to one another and our environment.

The power of preserving cultural heritage to build a better world

Why do we go to great lengths to preserve culture and make it bloom? Culture is a resource for the identity and cohesion of communities. In today’s interconnected world, it is also one of our most powerful resources to transform societies and renew ideas.

The Cultural Curriculum Project co-creates educational media from the cultural knowledge of indigenous peoples around the world

This project supports the ability to access and share decentralized educational media, providing a new and unique opportunity for combining equitable education programs and experiential methodologies.

Our project opens pathways to re-conceptualize and sustain goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy with and for Indigenous peoples by supporting sovereignty, self-education, and Native nation-building through the creation and implementation of these media based curriculums.

EDUCATION + ENTERTAINMENT

Edutainment uses the integration of storytelling with Indigenous knowledge to strengthen the learning spirit of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous students. This holistic approach to learning engages the four knowledge domains that nourish literacy and interweave all aspects of learning: emotional, spiritual, cognitive and physical. This combats the lack of identity, voice and low-self esteem created by non-holistic pedagogies. Mixing education with entertainment is the key to keep people enthusiastic and curious about learning.When learning involves more senses there is higher engagement and the amount of information that is retained increases.

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The Cultural Curriculum Project is fiscally sponsored by Creative Visions, a 501c3 nonprofit organization that supports creative activists, that use the arts and media to ignite social change.

  • THE PROBLEM.

    Indigenous nationalities face the loss of culture, land and ways of life due to assimilation, extractivism and globalization. The pressure to assimilate has resulted in the loss of local languages and important rituals that ingrain youth in communities along with a deeper sense of identity and purpose.

    These losses translate into high rates of youth drug use, suicide and increased crime rates. Globalization leads to the loss of local and sustainable livelihoods for youth, causing many to migrate to cities in search of work – often in extractive industries. These losses are exasperating the threat of accelerated extractivism on local community land ownership – destroying the forest and her principal protectors. Thus the global climate catastrophe is fueled by the very forces indigenous youth are forced to assimilate to.

  • THE SOLUTION.

    The Cultural Curriculum Project will open pathways to re-conceptualize and sustain goals to activate agency, social change, and advocacy with and for Indigenous peoples as they begin to enact sovereignty, self-education, and Native nation-building through the creation and implementation of cultural curriculums.

    This will generate a renewed spirit of hope and commitment to intellectual and spiritual sovereignty. The project will also address solutions around indigenizing curriculum and pedagogy, revitalizing and sustaining languages, engaging families and communities in Indigenous education, and Indigenizing teaching and teacher education.

  • INTENTIONAL EXECUTION.

    Partnering with culture keepers, government institutions, civil society, research anthropologists and media creators to provide a library of educational media on an immutable decentralized record so it will be stored for future generations

    Pioneer a new web 3.0-enabled, transparent, and regenerative economic model for current and future generations of cultural keepers to preserve and nurture their traditions.

    Provide self-reliance to local communities through impact investments to provide connectivity, agency and access to education.

Our Partners.