Apache moral education works by encoding ethical lessons into place-based stories told as needed.
Evidence
In traditional Apache culture, stories about how to “live right” are intimately connected to the places and the land where the people have lived for centuries. Moral lessons are directly linked through these stories to actual places and the elements of the landscape of those places: the streams, trees, rocks, and so on. Thus, the land is imbued and encoded with the wisdom of the culture through the stories told about place. Everyone in the culture knows the stories, and when one is told, it is often used as an “arrow” to try to teach someone who has gone astray how to live according to the ethical code of the community. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 1598
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the reader’s land/place and listening-as-method threads, and to the earlier ch29-30 on how place embodies social meaning. — connects to: Indigenous storytelling develops creative and metaphoric thinking capacities across the lifespan. — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1602; Islamic knowledge transmission rooted writing in embodied ethical exemplarship; Viewers of educational serials enact modeled behaviors to reshape their own community norms — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2833 (+1 more)
- SEED: A concrete curricular model: place-based ‘arrows’ — teaching through stories anchored to the local landscape rather than decontextualized moral rules.
Broader Connections
- Viewers of educational serials enact modeled behaviors to reshape their own community norms
#exemplifies(0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2833 - Islamic knowledge transmission rooted writing in embodied ethical exemplarship
#expands(0.75) - Personal histories can reveal deep moral dilemmas and journeys.
#exemplifies(0.72) — Thomas Mallon, A Book of Ones Own People and Their…, 750