This study explored the key factors influencing the sustainable success of herbal businesses in Sakon Nakhon Province, Thailand, amid the growing global demand for herbal products. The research focused on the economic, social, environmental, and managerial aspects affecting sustainability and competitiveness. We employed a quantitative research…

This article explores my relational learning reflections with the Laitu Khyeng Indigenous community in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), Bangladesh, focusing on Indigenous perspectives on climate change education. Implementing a relational theoretical framework, I share my reflections on relational learning in this research as part of being…

Five early childhood teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand explored a range of literature to respond to the question: What does literature tell us about Maori leadership and how are our findings relevant to leadership in early childhood education (ECE) in Aotearoa? The process of finding and reviewing literature sources about Maori leadership…

This study explores how totems and decorative texts shape cultural identity among Indigenous students at an elementary school in Taiwan. Using Roland Barthes' semiotic theory, it examines the cultural meanings and functions of visual symbols through qualitative methods. The representative semiotics include the Bunun woodcarving calendar, diamond…

This article addresses the application of matauranga Maori (Maori knowledge) to Classical Studies in light of the NCEA Change Programme (and the 2023 coalition government's changes to that programme). I focus on the (now-dormant) first 'Big Idea', which originally proposed that some classical terms or concepts might be optimally explained through…

Northern Norway's population comprises many different cultural groups. According to the Norwegian Education Act, education must give students insight into and a firm foundation in history and culture. This paper aims to present a proposal for how to start working with the creation of local rural mathematics curricula for which Sámi culture in…

The past two decades have seen a proliferation of Indigenous philosophy in environmental education. Much of this anti and decolonial work has made significant advances in deconstructing western modernist subjectivities; re-embedding and re-situating Indigenous and western relational epistemologies into human-earth relationality, including critical…

My personal experience as a foster child in various extended family households in southeast Nigeria is something I wish to document in my adult life. My research engagement with study participants on informal foster care practice is also a story I aspire to share in a social work evidence-based journal. This paper therefore is not focused on…

This article presents a detailed framework, or blueprint, for revolutionizing music scholarship in Ghana. This framework encourages the use of a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches in areas such as performance, composition, analysis, and portfolio-based research. The blueprint is based on decolonial and inclusive ideas, aiming…

Schools in rural places in European societies generally teach the same content and perform as well as other national schools do on national tests and international comparison assessments such as PISA. However, by doing this they may also marginalise local rural knowledge and expose rural populations to a (for them) culturally insensitive…

The vision of this doctoral project was to document Native educational leaders who center their school leadership in ancestral knowledge and the cultural practices of their communities as they lead from the middle. Leading from the middle acknowledges a cultural lens to compare that approach to the indigenous. Leading from the middle acknowledges…

As a Tsilhqot'in woman, former secondary school English teacher, and current teachers' union employee, I began this inquiry by asking myself, "how can Indigenous science fiction inform my work and my life as an educator?" Using a philosophical hermeneutic approach which is also informed by Indigenous methodologies, I approached…

Indonesia's rich plant biodiversity and cultural heritage are closely reflected in traditional life cycle ceremonies--such as birth, marriage, and death--which often involve specific plant species. Ethnobotany, the study of human-plant interactions, serves as a bridge between traditional knowledge and modern science. This descriptive qualitative…

Contemporary scholarly critique in Indigenous research spaces has tended to focus on binary dualities, including the purpose of Indigenous-focused research, and the legitimacy of researcher identity, research knowledge and truth. Yet, perhaps unintentionally, such interrogation has led to the continued (re)construction and maintenance of false…

Asian diaspora imaginaries/futurities refer to the ways Asian diasporas imagine futurities and create possibilities for themselves and their descendants beyond the constraints of oppressive spaces/places. I explore the theoretical traditions, cartographies, and renditions of Asian diaspora imaginaries/futurities. Inspired by AfroFuturism,…