Indigenous Environmental Education for Cultural Survival

• Main Author: Leanne Simpson
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Canada; anishina*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.466.4855; http://new-library.lakeheadu.ca/index.php/cjee/article/download/271/160/

Aboriginal Peoples are facing a number of serious and complex environmen-tal issues within their territories. Post-secondary environmental education programs in Canada have been slow to adopt curriculum and develop pro-grams to meet the needs of Aboriginal students and their communities. This manuscript outlines necessary components of successful Indigenous envi-ronmental education programs at the post-secondary level based on the author’s participation in three such programs as a program developer/direc-tor, curriculum developer and instructor, the current literature, and, in addi-tion, her experiences as an Anishinaabe student studying Western science. Résumé Les peuples autochtones font face, sur leurs territoires, à de sérieuses et complexes questions de nature environnementale. Les programmes d’éduca-tion environnementale offerts au niveau postsecondaire au Canada tardent à concevoir des programmes et à adopter un programme d’enseignement