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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
George Jerry Sefa Dei, Editor; Wambui Karanja, Editor; Avea E. Nsoh, Editor; Daniel Yelkpieri, Editor – Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2025
This is a powerful collection addressing the challenges, possibilities and responsibilities for de/anti-colonial African educational futurities. The book is framed within an anti-colonial interrogation of collective educational leadership, responsibility and accountability to address the invisibilization and marginalization of African Indigenous…
Descriptors: Colonialism, Barriers, Social Justice, Decolonization
Dempster, Edith R. – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2021
This article explores the recontextualization of science in the Malawi Standard 6 syllabus for science and technology. It illustrates how relations of power and social control are enacted, using Bernstein's concepts of classification and vertical and horizontal discourse. The syllabus incorporates five 'disciplines': science, technology, health,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Course Descriptions, Indigenous Knowledge
Mudaly, Ronicka; Sanjigadu, Sebastian – Education as Change, 2022
Cognitive injustice, which nourishes and sustains current political, social and economic injustice, has been at the centre of the knowledge production enterprise since the colonisers embarked on their project of dispossession and plunder. In order to achieve global justice, the quest for epistemic justice needs to be brought to the centre of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge
Fildes, Karen J.; Beck, Eleanor; Bur, Tatiana; Burns, Pippa; Chisholm, Laurie A.; Dillon, Carolyn T.; Kuit, Tracey A.; McMahon, Anne T.; Neale, Elizabeth P.; Paton-Walsh, Clare; Powell, Sophie; Skropeta, Danielle; Stefoska-Needham, Anita; Tomlin, Alison; Treweek, Teresa M.; Walton, Karen; Kennedy, Jade – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
This article will describe an approach to curriculum reconciliation that aspires to be the first step towards recognising that Indigenous ways of knowing have equal value and status as the dominant institutional systems of knowledge. Specifically, curriculum reconciliation is considered in the context of building knowledge-based relationships…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Relevance (Education), Science Education, Medical Education
Opoku, Maxwell Jnr; James, Angela – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2021
In Africa, Science education curricula have been instrumental in promoting Western worldviews as being universal. An educational transformation and decolonisation of the school curriculum is required. A focus on an African worldview and an integration of the local context and community-based information is necessary for survival, i.e., Indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Science Education, Curriculum Development
Govender, Nadaraj – Education as Change, 2019
Curricular innovation in the 21st century in education requires significant transformation with regards to political, economic, socio-cultural and environmental concerns such as climate change and sustainability, amongst others. A critical pedagogy approach that includes the hegemonic knowledge debates of Western and Indigenous Knowledge Systems…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Critical Theory, Curriculum Development, Indigenous Knowledge
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
Mueller, Michael P.; Bentley, Michael L. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2009
Curriculum reform in environmental and science education now taking place in Ghana focuses on the community and ecosystems as the context of education. In Ghana, students conduct science investigations that include games, word searches, crossword puzzles, case studies, role play, debates, projects, and ecological profiles. This curriculum reflects…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Play, Environmental Education, Ceremonies
Glasson, George E. – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2010
Education for sustainability provides a vision for revitalizing the environmental commons while preserving cultural traditions and human rights. What happens if the environmental commons is shared by two politically disparate and conflicting cultures? As in many shared common lands, what happens if one culture is dominant and represents a more…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Student Attitudes
Ryan, Ann – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2008
Science education in Papua New Guinea has been influenced by neo-colonial practices that have significantly contributed to the silencing of the Papua New Guinea voice. This silencing has led to the production of science curriculum documents that are irrelevant to the students for whom they are written. To avoid being caught up in neo-colonial…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Curriculum
Alaska Univ., Fairbanks. – 1997
The Alaska Federation of Natives, in cooperation with the University of Alaska, received funding to implement the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative (AKRSI). Over a 5-year period (1995-2000), AKRSI initiatives are systematically documenting the indigenous knowledge systems of Alaska Native people and developing educational policies and practices…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Curriculum Development
Kraipeerapun, Kittima; Thongthew, Sumlee – International Education Journal, 2007
In this paper, an ethnobotany curriculum is used as a case example of one approach to incorporating the insights and needs of the local community into the curriculum development process. This curriculum development was carried out in the "Kiriwong Community" in Nakornsrithammarat Province, Southern Thailand. The ethnobotany curriculum…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Curriculum Development, Rural Schools, Participant Observation

Garrison, Edward R. – Journal of Navajo Education, 1994
Describes how a college teacher used Navajo traditional knowledge to rethink the teaching of college biology. Suggests that teachers intimidated by the intricate Dine Philosophy of Education may integrate Navajo knowledge into their courses through focused research guided by Navajo consultants. Includes five examples of redesigned curricula for…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Biology, College Science
Settee, Priscilla – 2000
This paper reviews books and research papers concerned with Indigenous science knowledge and its integration into school curricula and describes current efforts to bridge Western and Native science. "A Yupiaq World View: Implications for Cultural, Educational and Technological Adaptation in a Contemporary World" (Angayuqaq Oscar…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, Cultural Exchange, Culturally Relevant Education
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