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Osorio, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole – Educational Perspectives, 2004
This article is a poignant commentary on the connection of the Native Hawaiian people with the past, the present, and the future. In this article, the author positions himself within the histories of his people. He talks about putting faces to his ancestors by linking them with the people of his day, and he talks about reconstructing the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Hawaiians, Tales
Corbett, Michael – Canadian Journal of Education, 2007
This analysis draws on interview data from a three-year study of educational decision making of youth living in a coastal community in Atlantic Canada. Students whose educational and mobility aspirations extend outside the known spaces of the community develop the ability to negotiate multiple social spaces in and out of school. The school- …
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Environment, Rural Sociology, Rural Schools
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Howard, Patrick – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2007
The impetus for this article was research I conducted while living with children on the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, during the culmination of decades of blatant disregard for the marine ecosystem. At the heart of the social and ecological devastation happening in Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador communities are matters of environmental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ecology, Environmental Education, Indigenous Knowledge
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Waldrip, Bruce G.; Timothy, Joe T.; Wilikai, Wilson – International Journal of Science Education, 2007
This paper draws on the personal experiences of three researchers: an "outsider" (or western-oriented) science teacher, a science teacher educator who has lived in Melanesian countries for almost a decade, and a national researcher who was born and educated in Melanesia. During a recent interpretative research study of the problematic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Researchers, Teacher Researchers, Culture Conflict
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Tamisari, Franca; Milmilany, Elizabeth – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2003
In this paper we present a brief history of education at the community of Milingimbi in northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory from the mission times to today. In focusing on the emergence and implementation of bicultural curriculum initiatives we explore some of the difficulties and ever present challenges encountered by Yolngu educators,…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education
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von Kotze, Astrid – Studies in Continuing Education, 2002
A case study of a village in Zimbabwe illustrated how collective community actions resulted in learning that enabled sustainable management of a community resource. Educators' role was helping the community ask the right questions in the process of producing useful working knowledge. (Contains 34 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Educators, Community Action, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Knowledge
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Vontress, Clemmont E. – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1999
A counselor educator interviews a well-known traditional African healer in a village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to learn how he chose his profession, the content and duration of his preparation, how he relates to his clients, and how he diagnoses their problems and intervenes on their behalf. (Author/GCP)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Training, Cultural Background, Ethnography
Jenkins, Karen – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
The United Nations launched its "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development," in January. The purpose of the "Decade" is to promote viable and just societies for all people. All over the world, educational institutions are being encouraged to move beyond teaching about the environment and implement educational policies and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Cultural Awareness
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Holmes, Keith; Crossley, Michael – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2004
This paper draws upon a case study of education in the small Caribbean state of Saint Lucia (population 154,000) to examine how local knowledge and values can influence the education policy process. It is argued that recent research development initiatives have strengthened the ability of Saint Lucia to mediate international education agendas to…
Descriptors: Values, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Research, Cultural Influences
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Hickling-Hudson, Anne – Compare A Journal of Comparative Education, 2004
Pearlette Louisy raises issues of pressing concern for the future of Caribbean education. Here, I elaborate on some of the dilemmas that she raises. Interwoven in this discussion are sketches of potentially positive scenarios in a globalising future.
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Latin Americans, Indigenous Knowledge, Futures (of Society)
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Cashman, Kimo Alexander – Educational Perspectives, 2004
This article is a collection of stories crafted in the tradition of indigenous research. At the start of each section, the author asks, "Who am I?" From the stories he chooses to share, the answer is obvious--Kimo is Kimo. His stories are Kimo, his world view is Kimo, the language he speaks is Kimo. Within each story, the author connects…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Cultural Background, Hawaiians, Story Telling
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Cheng, Yin Cheong – International Journal of Educational Management, 2004
Since there are increasing international concerns with both the positive and negative impacts of globalization on indigenous and national development, how to manage the realities and practices of globalization and localization in education for maximizing the benefits and minimizing the disadvantages for the development of individuals and their…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Indigenous Knowledge, Individual Development, Global Approach
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Cathryn McConaghy – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2003
One of the projects engaged in within the text "Rethinking Indigenous Education" (RIE) (McConaghy, 2000) was an analysis of the colonial regimes that are reproduced within Indigenous education, often despite our emancipatory intentions. Through a detailed critique of the various competitions for epistemic authority in the field, the book…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Trauma, Instruction, Indigenous Knowledge
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Collins-Gearing, Brooke – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2006
Australian children's literature has a history of excluding Indigenous child readers and positioning non-Indigenous readers as the subject. Rather than portray such literature, particularly before the 1950s, as simply racist or stereotypical, I argue that it is important for teachers, of all students, to help readers understand how nationalist or…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Indigenous Populations, Misconceptions, Racial Attitudes
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Christie, Michael – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2006
Indigenous academic researchers are involved in Indigenist, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, all of which present problems and opportunities for Indigenous knowledge traditions. "Transdisciplinary" research is different from "interdisciplinary" research because it moves beyond the disciplinarity of the…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Indigenous Populations, Interdisciplinary Approach, Researchers
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