Indigenous Knowledge: Foundations for First Nations
This essay seeks to clarify the theoretical frameworks that have been developed to understand Indigenous knowledge, to provide some insight into the reasons for the tensions between Indigenous and Eurocentric ways of knowing, and to point out the challenges these conflicts bring to educational syste...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium
2005
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/winhec/article/view/19251 |
| Summary: | This essay seeks to clarify the theoretical frameworks that have been developed to understand Indigenous knowledge, to provide some insight into the reasons for the tensions between Indigenous and Eurocentric ways of knowing, and to point out the challenges these conflicts bring to educational systems. It is part of a study that responds to the Government of Canada's working partnership with First Nations to improve the quality of Aboriginal life and education in Canada through research conducted with the Education Renewal Initiative. |
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