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Lowan, Greg – Pathways: The Ontario Journal of Outdoor Education, 2007
Outward Bound Canada's (OBC) Giwaykiwin Program was founded in 1985 in response to a recognized need for programming specific to students from Indigenous backgrounds. The Giwaykiwin program aims to integrate Outward Bound (OB) and Indigenous philosophies and traditions. Giwaykiwin means "coming home" in Ojibwa and signifies the program's…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Program Descriptions
Ogunniyi, M. B. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
In response to the needs of a newly democratic South Africa, a new education policy required science teachers to integrate Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) with school science: Curriculum 2005 (C2005) was developed. The first phase of that curriculum was implemented in 1997 with the hope that by 2005 it would have been implemented in the entire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Scientific Principles, Indigenous Knowledge
Christie, Michael – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2005
According to Manovich (2001), the database and the narrative are natural enemies, each competing for the same territory of human culture. Aboriginal knowledge traditions depend upon narrative through storytelling and other shared performances. The database objectifies and commodifies distillations of such performances and absorbs them into data…
Descriptors: Metadata, Databases, Foreign Countries, Epistemology
Tsering, Tashi – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2008
In environmentalist discourse, there is often an assumption that certain non-industrial peoples, usually called "traditional" or "indigenous" live in more "harmonious" relations with nature. The general argument is that instead of treating these communities as "backward" or "uncivilized," the…
Descriptors: Buddhism, Cultural Context, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
Macfarlane, Angus H. – Kairaranga, 2006
In every profession, there comes a time when it is important to stop and evaluate the progress that has been made and to determine the changes that will be necessary to engage in new times and to meet new demands. The profession of tertiary education is no exception. In a period of rapid change many solutions are offered about what it takes to…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Change, Culture, Pacific Islanders
Lundgren, Anders – Science & Education, 2006
This paper is a study of textbooks in chemical technology in Sweden during the industrialisation in the 19th century. In this period, teaching in technological education in general became more and more founded on science. However, there existed very few textbooks in chemical technology, and it is argued that the reason was that the essentials of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Technology Education, Time Perspective
Acosta, Curtis – English Journal, 2007
Starting from a framework that emphasizes indigenous heritage, high school teacher Curtis Acosta and students in the Chicano/Raza Studies classes engage with literature that reflects the students' lives, families, and histories. Doing so encourages students to visualize and affirm academic identities while they confront current issues of…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Culturally Relevant Education, Resistance (Psychology), Indigenous Populations
Grover, Jane Gray – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2008
How can indigenous evaluators implement culturally competent models in First Nations communities while ensuring that government grant evaluation requirements are met? Through describing the challenges in one tribal community in the United States, this article will discuss how American Indian/Alaska Native substance abuse prevention programs are…
Descriptors: Evidence, Evaluators, Substance Abuse, Prevention
Lawrence, Randee Lipson – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
This article looks at the ways in which people learn informally through artistic expression such as dance, drama, poetry, music, literature, film, and all of the visual arts and how people access this learning through their emotions. The author begins with a look at the limitations of relying primarily on technical-rational learning processes.…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Visual Arts, Art Education, Learning Processes
Palmer, Bill – Online Submission, 1992
The wiser of the early European settlers and explorers used Aboriginal knowledge of the local flora and fauna to build up Western scientific knowledge of an unknown continent. And this process continues. This article briefly presents some of the many aboriginal technological inventions and refers to the uncanny ability of Aboriginal people to find…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Science Education, Technological Advancement
Lopez, Barry – Orion: People and Nature, 2001
Reflects on how the modern naturalist, having a high regard for objectivity, deals with spiritual issues and emotional responses to environmental devastation; the role of field experience in a naturalist's judgments on politically sensitive environmental issues; the great time needed to acquire first-hand knowledge, such as that held by indigenous…
Descriptors: Ecology, Experiential Learning, Indigenous Knowledge, Naturalistic Observation
Van Damme, Lynette Sibongile Masuku; Neluvhalani, Edgar Fulufhelo – Environmental Education Research, 2004
This paper provides perspective on the growing research arena of indigenous knowledge in environmental education in southern Africa. By drawing mainly on South African case examples of indigenous knowledge activities and research (including our own research) we provide an overview of activities and debates that have emerged in response to earlier…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge, Environmental Education, Educational Trends
Kana'iaupuni, Shawn Malia – Educational Researcher, 2004
In 1956, Andrew Sharp published "Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific," in which he hypothesized that the migration throughout much of Polynesia, including Hawaii, was accidental. Archaeologists and historians widely accepted Sharp's theory as a simple solution to how Polynesians crossed 2,200 miles of open ocean on the world's largest sea.…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, World Views, Indigenous Knowledge
Kana'iaupuni, Shawn Malia – Educational Researcher, 2005
In 1956, Andrew Sharp published "Ancient Voyagers in the Pacific," in which he hypothesized that the migration throughout much of Polynesia, including Hawaii, was accidental. Archaeologists and historians widely accepted Sharp's theory as a simple solution to how Polynesians crossed 2,200 miles of open ocean on the world's largest sea.…
Descriptors: Hawaiians, Indigenous Populations, World Views, Indigenous Knowledge
Maynard, John – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
This paper seeks to identify and explore the differences of Indigenous approaches to historical practice. Why is history so important to Indigenous Australia? History is of crucial importance across the full spectrum of Indigenous understanding and knowledge. History belongs to all cultures and they have differing means of recording and recalling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Inclusion, History