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Babita Maharjan; Binod Prasad Pant; Niroj Dahal – Pedagogical Research, 2024
Place-based knowledge, a legacy from our ancestors, is inherently sustainable. However, modern lifestyles have eclipsed this wisdom, leading to environmental issues such as land and water pollution. Similarly, the current pedagogical practices often fail to connect place-based knowledge. It resulted in a deviation of students' contextual learning.…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Action Research
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Kamal Raj Devkota; Ulrike Hanemann – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2025
There is a long tradition of intergenerational transfer of knowledge in Nepali communities. While local languages are seen as crucial means for preserving, transmitting and applying traditional knowledge, ongoing social change has raised concern that local languages and knowledge as foundations of learning and cultural identity are being weakened.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Nonformal Education, Educational Anthropology
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Rüschenpöhler, Lilith – International Journal of Science Education, 2023
This paper analyses the current state of postcolonial and decolonial science teaching, based on a systematic review of the literature, with a special focus on the European context. It shows that currently, a very narrow view on postcolonial science teaching prevails, limiting its scope to former colonies. A total of 227 articles published…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Secondary Education, Secondary School Science, Teaching Methods
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Kamal Prasad Acharya – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2025
The study explores the students' engagement in the school garden through mushroom farming resulting in reorienting science pedagogy. It particularly reconnoiters the interconnection between entrepreneurship skills through mushroom farming and the pedagogy for the basic-level public schools of Nepal. Also, the study explores the science pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Food, Teaching Methods, Entrepreneurship
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Poudel, Mamta; Singh, Nanda Bdr. – International Journal of Multidisciplinary Perspectives in Higher Education, 2016
This ethnobiological study aims to document and discuss original knowledge that local people develop based on the climate, local ecology, culture, and tradition in order to sustain their society. An ethnobiological survey on Raji people was conducted in Uttarganga village of Surkhet in Western Nepal with a view to understanding what medicinal,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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Singh, Navin Kumar – International Journal of Multicultural Education, 2013
This paper presents some of the major program initiatives honoring Indigenous knowledge, culture, heritage, arts, and skills through curricular reforms and culturally appropriate educational practices on the Indian sub-continent. It presents case studies of Indigenous culture-based education, with reference to mother tongue and multicultural…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Indigenous Knowledge, Multicultural Education, Educational Practices