von Thater-Braan.2001 The Six Directions A Pattern for Understanding Native American Educational Values, Diversity and the Need for Cognitive Pluralism

What I want to talk about this afternoon and explore with you are my thoughts and the thoughts of other Native and non-Native scholars regarding the need for cognitive pluralism, the acceptance and respect for different ways of knowing. I thought it would be helpful for those of you who may not have...

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Main Author: Rose Von Thater-braan
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2001
Subjects:
The First People
First Nations
Aboriginal People
Native Americans
Indians
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.623.5529
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Summary:What I want to talk about this afternoon and explore with you are my thoughts and the thoughts of other Native and non-Native scholars regarding the need for cognitive pluralism, the acceptance and respect for different ways of knowing. I thought it would be helpful for those of you who may not have been exposed to the Native American worldview for me to speak a bit about it and how it is different from the western or Eurocentric worldview. Using the medicine wheel as our model, we enter at the East.

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