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Publication Date: 2009
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Engaging Indigenous Urban Youth in Environmental Learning: The Importance of Place Revisited
Swayze, Natalie
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, v14 n1 p59-73 2009
This paper describes the evolution of an environmental learning program for Indigenous, urban youth called Bridging the Gap. A critical pedagogy of place provides a theoretical framework to engage in practitioner-reflection, exploring the decisions made while revising the original program to make it both culturally and ecologically relevant. Using an action research methodology, the practitioner-researcher resolves to continue to seek resolution to relevant aspects of marginalization in attempt to facilitate reinhabitation for Bridging the Gap learners while emphasizing the program's place-specific social, economic, and ecological situatedness. (Contains 2 notes.)
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Education, Environmental Education, Action Research, Research Methodology, Urban Youth, Indigenous Populations, Teaching Methods, Culturally Relevant Education, Teacher Researchers, Reflective Teaching
Lakehead University and Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication. Lakehead University Faculty of Education, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada. Fax: 807-346-7771; e-mail: cjee@lakeheadu.ca; Web site: http://cjee.lakeheadu.ca
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Language: English
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