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Direct linkSchabort, Franci; Sinnes, Astrid; Kyle, William C., Jr. – Educational Action Research, 2018
The objective of this transformative action research project was to explore and develop sustainable methods to promote female empowerment through science education in rural, disadvantaged sectors of South Africa. In an attempt to achieve this we collaborated with local community members to develop and implement a contextualized science curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Sustainability, Empowerment
Download full textDiaz, Maria E.; Bussert-Webb, Kathy – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2017
This qualitative study examines the learning and interaction processes between Latino/a teacher candidates (TCs) and youth during a community service-learning program involving science and math. Knowing and affirming nondominant youth's strengths are essential from funds of knowledge and Third Space perspectives. Participants were 11 TCs and their…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Hispanic American Students, Minority Group Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Chiang, Chia-Ling; Lee, Huei – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
The worldview within indigenous people's traditional knowledge and western science can be a world of difference. In order to help indigenous students cross the gap and develop a sense of cultural identification. Taking Bunun, one of the Taiwanese indigenous tribes, as our subject, this study aims to develop a teaching module through Bunun's Millet…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, World Views, Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods
Mpofu, Vongai; Mushayikwa, Emmanuel; Otulaja, Femi S. – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2014
This article forms part of a major study being conducted in Zimbabwe to explore the possibilities of integrating indigenous knowledge of plant healing (Ikoph) into western-oriented classroom science. The article reports on an aspect of research methodology. This study explored appropriate strategies for gaining access to indigenous knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Research Methodology, Observation
Mpofu, Vongai; Mushayikwa, Emmanuel; Otulaja, Femi S. – Online Submission, 2014
This article forms part of a major study being conducted in Zimbabwe to explore the possibilities of integrating indigenous knowledge of plant healing (Ikoph) into western-oriented classroom science. The article reports on an aspect of research methodology. This study explored appropriate strategies for gaining access to indigenous knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Plants (Botany), Culturally Relevant Education
Williams, Lewis – Journal of Transformative Education, 2013
Indigenous worldviews remain at the margins of education, science, and sustainability efforts. The emergence of sustainable science holds promise as a means of advancing deep sustainability and recentering Indigenous knowledge. Transformative learning's engagement with sustainable science has the potential to play an integral role in this…
Descriptors: Epistemology, World Views, Indigenous Knowledge, Interviews
Allaire, Franklin S. – Educational Perspectives, 2013
Research with Native Hawaiian science teachers is contributing to a better understanding of issues relating to equity in science education, and toward improving science curriculum to support Native Hawaiian students as well as support systems for Native Hawaiian students interested in pursuing higher education and science-based careers.…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge
Sutherland, Dawn; Swayze, Natalie – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
In this issue of Cultural Studies of Science Education, Mack and colleagues (Mack et al. "2011") seek to identify the necessary components of science education in Indigenous settings. Using a review of current research in informal science education in Indigenous settings, along with personal interviews with American educators engaged in…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Place Based Education, Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge
Mack, Elizabeth; Augare, Helen; Cloud-Jones, Linda Different; David, Dominique; Gaddie, Helene Quiver; Honey, Rose E.; Kawagley, Angayuqaq O.; Plume-Weatherwax, Melissa Little; Fight, Lisa Lone; Meier, Gene; Pete, Tachini; Leaf, James Rattling; Returns From Scout, Elvin; Sachatello-Sawyer, Bonnie; Shibata, Hi'ilani; Valdez, Shelly; Wippert, Rachel – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2012
There are a growing number of informal science education (ISE) programs in Native communities that engage youth in science education and that are grounded in Native ways of knowing. There is also a growing body of research focusing on the relationship between culture, traditional knowledge, and science education. However, there is little research…
Descriptors: Expertise, American Indian Education, Science Education, Indigenous Populations
Diwu, Christopher T.; Ogunniyi, Meshach B. – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2012
In South Africa and elsewhere, the integration of science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) is a contentious issue. This is due to both knowledge systems being underpinned by diverse epistemic authorities. This paper explores the possibilities and challenges associated with the integration of the two knowledge corpuses and how a Dialogical…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Science Education, Focus Groups, Interviews
Ogunniyi, M. B. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
The mandate of the new South African curriculum for educators to enact a science-indigenous knowledge curriculum in their classrooms is not only challenging to their cosmological beliefs, it is equally challenging to their instructional practices. This is because science educators (teachers) in South Africa have been schooled largely in western…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Education, Science Teachers, World Views
Asabere-Ameyaw, Akwasi; Sefa Dei, George J.; Raheem, Kolawole – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This article presents the preliminary findings of a pilot study of the practice, uses, and effectiveness of traditional medicine in Ghana. Based on in-depth interviews with local key practitioners and users of traditional medicine, the article points to some of the educational significance of local cultural knowledge on the environment and the…
Descriptors: Medicine, Pharmacology, Health, Indigenous Knowledge
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
