Educational Experiential Calendars: Creating Links Between Indigenous Communities and High School

Many Indigenous peoples have elaborated calendars that reflect the agricultural, festive, or ritual aspects of Indigenous cosmology, family, community, and organization of time and space. This chapter focuses on educational experiential calendars developed in intercultural bilingual schools in Ecuador. The field study was conducted in the Amazonian province of Pastaza. The chapter first presents the elements of the calendars and how they represent the epistemology and ecological and cultural knowledge of the Amazonian Kichwa and Shuar nationalities. Thereafter, the chapter explores the process of developing the calendars in the schools studied. The chapter concludes that, if constructed in intergenerational and intercultural dialogue, these calendars can serve as a useful pedagogical tool, and contribute to the revitalization of Indigenous knowledge.