Towards an aboriginal model for social action

George P Leach

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Towards an aboriginal model for social action

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George P Leach. Towards an Aboriginal Model for Social Action. Regis College. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5559400c-a92c-4ee3-be4f-266e7acc664e.

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G. P. Leach. Towards an aboriginal model for social action. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5559400c-a92c-4ee3-be4f-266e7acc664e

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George P Leach. Towards an Aboriginal Model for Social Action. Regis College. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/5559400c-a92c-4ee3-be4f-266e7acc664e.

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George P Leach

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Abstract

As the author walked various trails with the native people over the past 10 years, he learned many native traditions and became involved in various social issues. Since racism was a major problem among the urban native people, he decided to begin his qualitative research with this problem. He designed a series of six sessions based on the pastoral circle. Meeting with groups of elders, adults and youth, he was seeking an aboriginal model for social action. The discoveries not only revealed that the native people contributed to a deepening of the phases of the pastoral circle, but they also revealed a 'life cycle' which is analogous to the pastoral circle. It begins with vision, moves through time, comes to wisdom or practical knowledge, and concludes with movement, which is the action flowing from the wisdom. Like the pastoral circle, it is cyclical and brings one back to the vision or life experience.

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