Restoring Relationships: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Meet Undergraduate Environmental Studies and Science
As places to engage with changing and complex ideas, institutions of higher education offer a logical site for bringing Indigenous ways of knowing together with environmental studies and science. However, profound differences between Indigenous and Western knowledges, as well as ongoing colonialism,...
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ftantiochuniv:oai:aura.antioch.edu:etds-1815 2023-11-12T04:17:13+01:00 Restoring Relationships: Indigenous Ways of Knowing Meet Undergraduate Environmental Studies and Science Rich, Nancy Leigh 2011-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/802 https://aura.antioch.edu/context/etds/article/1815/viewcontent/antioch1306369229.pdf unknown AURA - Antioch University Repository and Archive https://aura.antioch.edu/etds/802 https://aura.antioch.edu/context/etds/article/1815/viewcontent/antioch1306369229.pdf Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses Native American Indigenous environmental studies higher education cross-cultural Bilingual Multilingual and Multicultural Education Environmental Sciences Native American Studies text 2011 ftantiochuniv 2023-10-17T09:39:29Z As places to engage with changing and complex ideas, institutions of higher education offer a logical site for bringing Indigenous ways of knowing together with environmental studies and science. However, profound differences between Indigenous and Western knowledges, as well as ongoing colonialism, cultural biases of science, and the nature of mainstream academia, have discouraged this endeavor. Recent developments in undergraduate pedagogy now point the way. Using critical inquiry and qualitative methodology, this comparative study developed recommendations for practice based on current undergraduate teaching practices that bring Indigenous ways of knowing together with environmental studies and science across a diversity of institutions and disciplines. Seven faculty and two Elders were interviewed about their perceptions of benefits, challenges and pathways in this work. Participants represented science and environmental studies disciplines at a tribal college and public and private colleges and universities in New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The study confirmed the value and relevance of Native American and First Nations world views in relationship to the North American environment and underscored the need to protect the integrity of both Indigenous and Western knowledges when bringing them together. Key elements in the resulting pedagogical model are: 1) a central vision of restoring relationships “for everybody”; 2) a guiding principle of bringing knowledges together while maintaining the integrity of each, such as Albert Marshall’s (Mi’kmaq) principle of Two-Eyed Seeing; and 3) four teaching elements—activating knowledges by making mainstream assumptions visible and finding Indigenous voice; generating protocols for border-crossing between knowledges; revisioning the teaching/learning process to develop critical mind through co-learning, direct experience, multiple intelligences, and activism; and becoming transformed. Further recommendations for practice address issues of ... Text First Nations Mi’kmaq Antioch University Repository and Archive (AURA) |
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As places to engage with changing and complex ideas, institutions of higher education offer a logical site for bringing Indigenous ways of knowing together with environmental studies and science. However, profound differences between Indigenous and Western knowledges, as well as ongoing colonialism, cultural biases of science, and the nature of mainstream academia, have discouraged this endeavor. Recent developments in undergraduate pedagogy now point the way. Using critical inquiry and qualitative methodology, this comparative study developed recommendations for practice based on current undergraduate teaching practices that bring Indigenous ways of knowing together with environmental studies and science across a diversity of institutions and disciplines. Seven faculty and two Elders were interviewed about their perceptions of benefits, challenges and pathways in this work. Participants represented science and environmental studies disciplines at a tribal college and public and private colleges and universities in New York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. The study confirmed the value and relevance of Native American and First Nations world views in relationship to the North American environment and underscored the need to protect the integrity of both Indigenous and Western knowledges when bringing them together. Key elements in the resulting pedagogical model are: 1) a central vision of restoring relationships “for everybody”; 2) a guiding principle of bringing knowledges together while maintaining the integrity of each, such as Albert Marshall’s (Mi’kmaq) principle of Two-Eyed Seeing; and 3) four teaching elements—activating knowledges by making mainstream assumptions visible and finding Indigenous voice; generating protocols for border-crossing between knowledges; revisioning the teaching/learning process to develop critical mind through co-learning, direct experience, multiple intelligences, and activism; and becoming transformed. Further recommendations for practice address issues of ... |
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