Restoring Reciprocity: Indigenous Knowledges and Environmental Education

Environmental education in the U.S. has been slow to incorporate Indigenous knowledges, with most pre-university curriculum centering around Western science. I believe incorporating Indigenous knowledges into environmental education can promote reciprocal, critical, and active human-nature relations...

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Main Author: Valencia, Mireya
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2019
Subjects:
TEK
Online Access:https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/224
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=pomona_theses
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Summary:Environmental education in the U.S. has been slow to incorporate Indigenous knowledges, with most pre-university curriculum centering around Western science. I believe incorporating Indigenous knowledges into environmental education can promote reciprocal, critical, and active human-nature relationships. While Indigenous knowledges should infiltrate all levels of environmental education, I argue that alternative forms of education which operate outside the formal school system might present the fewest immediate obstacles.