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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Scholarship @ Claremont
2019
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Online Access: | https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/224 https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1212&context=pomona_theses |
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. |
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