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Houston, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
This paper seeks to engage the cultural interface where Indigenous knowledge meets Western academia, by questioning the validity of traditional research methods. Firstly, it is a response to the challenges facing Indigenous people confronted with the ethical and methodological issues arising from academic research. Secondly, it is a journey "into"…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Research Methodology, Researchers
Brayboy, Bryan McKinley Jones; Lomawaima, K. Tsianina; Villegas, Malia – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2007
In this article, we offer a tribute to the memories of Dr. Beatrice Medicine and Dr. Vine Deloria Jr., two of the most revered and celebrated Indigenous educators. We describe the legacy these scholars leave as one that calls on Indigenous communities to survive by both fighting against ongoing colonization and pursuing individual and communal…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Change Agents, Profiles, Professional Recognition
Cronin, Amanda; Ostergren, David M. – American Indian Quarterly, 2007
This research focuses on two elements of contemporary American Indian natural resource management. First, the authors explore the capacity of tribes to manage natural resources, including the merging of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) with Western science. Second, they analyze tribal management in the context of local and regional…
Descriptors: Natural Resources, Tribes, Indigenous Knowledge, American Indians
St. Denis, Verna – Canadian Teachers' Federation (NJ1), 2010
This qualitative study, initiated by the Canadian Teachers' Federation and its Advisory Committee on Aboriginal Education, explored the professional knowledge and experiences of Aboriginal (First Nations, Mets and Inuit) teachers. The rationale for the study was to address the urgent need to improve and promote Aboriginal education in public…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Public Schools, Indigenous Populations, Stereotypes
Lindow, Megan – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Cyril Naidoo, who directs the department of family medicine at the University of KwaZulu-Natal's Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, conducts workshops to traditional healers on how to help patients with AIDS and HIV. In Dr. Naidoo's workshop, the group discusses how to counsel patients about HIV and AIDS, how to refer them for testing, and then…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Medical Schools, Access to Health Care, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Hamilton, Mary – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2006
This paper introduces the significant body of research on everyday literacies that has developed over the last 20 years and links it with the concerns of those working in the field of lifelong learning. It starts by briefly introducing debates about adult informal learning. It goes on to discuss ethnographic and interview studies of everyday…
Descriptors: Literacy, Lifelong Learning, Indigenous Knowledge, Informal Education
Ujam, Faozi; El-Fiki, Sherif – Intercultural Education, 2006
A major postulate of this paper is that education is a subordinate component in a larger system of societies' development. This means that any educational policy for any country should stem from a long-term strategy to support this aim. The main focus of the study that this paper is based on is to develop a theoretical framework that identifies an…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Policy, Models, Community Education
Schroder, Barbara – Educational Studies, 2006
This paper explores ways to bring together local and global knowledge systems in the context of education. It first discusses the concepts of native science and of intercultural education, key ideas in Ecuadorian indigenous education today. Both of these concepts seek to unite the local and the global in new ways. It explores the views of…
Descriptors: Science Education, Multicultural Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Global Education
Epstein, Debbie; Boden, Rebecca – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2006
This paper problematises globalisation and the democratisation of the research imagination, highlighting the potentials for harm and good. We do so, first, by exploring two philosophical/epistemological issues: the definition of "knowledge" and the role of "research" in knowledge creation. The paper then considers some of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Research, Heuristics
Cochran-Smith, Marilyn; Lytle, Susan – Harvard Educational Review, 2006
This article offers a critique of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) related to the implications for teachers in educational improvement. Through an analysis of the NCLB legislation and accompanying policy tools that support it, the authors explore three images or central common conceptions symbolic of basic attitudes and orientations about teachers and…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Improvement, Indigenous Knowledge, Teacher Education
Nakata, Martin – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
For a while now I have been researching and writing about Australian Indigenous education issues. Like you all, I have seen much good work and learnt much from what is going on across the country and internationally to improve outcomes for Indigenous learners in formal education processes. And still we go on with the struggle and with the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries
Kutay, Cat – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
Indigenous people have been for a long time deprived of financial benefit from their knowledge. Campaigns around the stolen wages and the "Pay the Rent" campaign highlight this. As does the endemic poverty and economic disenfranchisement experienced by many Indigenous people and communities in Australia. Recent enterprises developed by…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Knowledge Management, Information Technology
Ogunniyi, M. B. – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
The new South African curriculum known as Curriculum 2005 (to depict the year of its full implementation) requires that teachers integrate school science with Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS). Curriculum 2005 has generated heated debates at various levels since its inception in 1997. This study focuses on the effectiveness or otherwise of a…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Science Teachers, Indigenous Knowledge, Teacher Attitudes
Choy, Sarojni C.; Woodlock, Julie – International Journal of Training Research, 2007
Vocational education and training outcomes for Indigenous Australians have remained below expectations for some time. Implementation of Indigenous Standpoint Theory (IST) presents the opportunity to further enhance Vocational Education and Training for Indigenous people in Australia. This paper briefly discusses this theory, the concept of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations
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