Aboriginal Peoples and the Environment ...
Contemporary Aboriginal communities in Canada face numerous environmental issues. In response to a Canada-wide needs assessment of First Nations communities, the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) located in Winnipeg created the First Nations Environmental Education and Training P...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Canadian Journal of Native Education
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Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v22i2.195844 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/195844 |
Summary: | Contemporary Aboriginal communities in Canada face numerous environmental issues. In response to a Canada-wide needs assessment of First Nations communities, the Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources (CIER) located in Winnipeg created the First Nations Environmental Education and Training Pro gram. This unique program is based on both Indigenous and western environmental knowledge and uses these knowledge systems to assess, monitor, and audit the environment from Indigenous perspectives. This article reports a qualitative re search project that used a participatory/collaborative research design to evaluate a community-based course taught in this program from the perspective of the students and one-course instructor. The article also discusses some issues in hands-on learning in First Nations communities, community-based research, and Aboriginal adult education. ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 22 No. 2 (1998) ... |
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