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The Cultural Interface Tension: Doing Indigenous Work in the Academy
Cultural Studies of Science Education, v15 n2 p615-621 Jun 2020
This article explores Vanessa Anthony-Stevens and Sammy Matsaw's paper "The Productive Uncertainty of Indigenous and Decolonizing Methodologies in the Preparation of Interdisciplinary STEM Researchers". That paper reports on a small qualitative study on how STEM students in the field of natural resources management react to the inclusion of Indigenous ways of knowing in their interdisciplinary research methodologies course. The authors are engaging contested intersections of knowledge that are notoriously difficult to negotiate. I argue that the inclusion of Indigenous 'ways of knowing' into the water resource management curriculum is based on Morgan's (in: McKinley, Smith (eds) Handbook of indigenous education, Springer, Singapore, pp 111-128, 2019. 10.1007/978-981-10-3899-0) idea of the 'guest paradigm'. At the same time, and in contrast, I also argue that the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in the curriculum cannot just occur in the classroom but needs to be considered at an institutional and individual level as well. The project should be seen as a small step within a wider Indigenous agenda of decolonizing the Eurocentric curriculum. [For "The Productive Uncertainty of Indigenous and Decolonizing Methodologies in the Preparation of Interdisciplinary STEM Researchers," see EJ1257230.]
Descriptors: STEM Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Research Training, Researchers, Student Attitudes, Natural Resources, Indigenous Knowledge, Water Quality, Curriculum Development, Management Development, Educational Change, Western Civilization, Teaching Methods
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