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Koirala, Kamal Prasad – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2023
This paper focuses on the context underpinning the implementation of ethno science at the K-12 school science curriculum in the context of Nepal. Since human evolution, Indigenous people have both gained scientific knowledge and practiced scientific skills. This paper refers to this knowledge as Ethno Science/ Indigenous Wisdom. However, hegemonic…
Descriptors: Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Development
Katy E. Chapman, Editor; David E. Beard, Editor – Online Submission, 2025
As a discipline, international education focuses on developing an international consciousness. There are moral and ethical, as well as pragmatic, consequences of the development of an international consciousness: In terms of ethics and morality, international education inculcates positive attitudes towards international understanding and global…
Descriptors: International Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Professional Associations, Decision Making
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Haavelsrud, Magnus – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2015
Epistemological preferences in Western academies over the centuries became the measuring rod for what is to count as valid knowledge in thinking about development. The genealogy of the sciences of law and economics can be traced back to the Roman and British empires. The problem is posed in this paper as to the question of how remnants of these…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Preferences, Educational Development, Educational History
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Smallbone, Catherine; Rofe, Craig; Moeed, Azra – Science Education International, 2017
This paper presents a literature review of theory and briefly presents insight from a case study. The literature review attempts to explain what Putaiao is, how it is being taught, and the learning of Putaiao. It also investigates the Putaiao curriculum and the challenges currently being faced. The literature covers students from early childhood,…
Descriptors: Theory Practice Relationship, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Literature Reviews
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Kassam, Karim-Aly S.; Avery, Leanne M.; Ruelle, Morgan L. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2017
Using two case studies of children's knowledge, this paper sheds light on the value, diversity, and necessity of Indigenous and place-based knowledge to science and engineering curricula in rural areas. Rural contexts are rich environments for cultivating contextual knowledge, hence framing a critical pedagogy of teaching and learning. Indigenous…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Indigenous Knowledge, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
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Higgins, Marc – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2014
Within Canadian science classrooms, Indigenous ways-of-knowing and ways-of-being continue to be underrepresented and undervalued. For Indigenous students, this often results in negative experiences and disparate achievement rates when compared to their non-Indigenous classmates. Recent decolonizing science education literature suggests critical…
Descriptors: Science Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Change
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Semali, Ladislaus M.; Hristova, Adelina; Owiny, Sylvia A. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2015
This study examines the relationship between informal science and indigenous innovations in local communities in which students matured. The discussion considers methods for bridging the gap that exists between parents' understanding of informal science ("Ubunifu") and what students learn in secondary schools in Kenya, Tanzania, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Informal Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Ezeudu, F. O.; Nkokelonye, C. U.; Ezeudu, S. A. – Online Submission, 2013
This paper is a study of historical foundations of science education in Igboland, its nature and scope as well as the challenges facing its integration into the 21st century school system in a globalized world. The authors found that there were many scientific activities in Igbo culture, but many problems hinder their integration into the basic…
Descriptors: Science Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Global Approach, Indigenous Knowledge
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Easton, Peter B. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2011
In this response to Hewson and Ogunniyi's paper on indigenous knowledge (IK) and science teaching in South Africa, I seek to broaden the debate by setting the enterprise of integrating IK into science education in its cultural and socio-political context. I begin by exploring the multiple meanings of indigenous knowledge in Africa, next consider…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, African Culture, Discovery Learning, Science Education
Parent, Nancy Brossard – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation provides a critical analysis of three informal science education partnerships that resulted from a 2003-2006 National Science Foundation grant titled, "Archaeology Pathways for Native Learners" (ESI-0307858), hosted by the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center. This dissertation is designed to contribute to…
Descriptors: American Indians, Science Education, Archaeology, Partnerships in Education
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Iseke-Barnes, Judy – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This paper examines the role of history in power relations which suppress Indigenous knowledges. History is located as being about power and about how the powerful maintain their power. The paper further examines the Bering Strait theory/myth and ways that discourses in history combine with discourses in science to devalue Indigenous knowledges.…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Aikenhead, Glen; Huntley, Bente – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1999
Surveys and interviews with 42 science teachers of Aboriginal students in northern Saskatchewan examined teacher attitudes toward Western science and Aboriginal knowledge and their practices that integrated the two cultures. Barriers to accommodating both Western and Aboriginal science cultures in the classroom were found to be conceptual,…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Biculturalism, Canada Natives