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Wihak, Christine; Merali, Noorfarah – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2003
The success of the Inuit people of Canada in seeking political autonomy resulted in the creation of the Nunavut territory. The new Government of Nunavut (GN) has instituted Inuit Quajimajatiqangit (IQ), the values, norms, and traditional knowledge of the Inuit, as formal policy to guide the delivery of health, social, and civil services in order…
Descriptors: Eskimos, Foreign Countries, Counseling, Counseling Techniques
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Shortridge, Barbara G. – Journal of Geography, 2005
How is the culture of Appalachia conveyed through its foods? Local experts in Appalachian counties were asked to create a hypothetical menu for a meal that was representative of their home region. Fried chicken and ham were the preferred main dishes and dessert selections focused on apple pie and peach or blackberry cobbler. Virtually everyone…
Descriptors: Food, Culture, Geographic Regions, Regional Characteristics
Dantas, Maria Luiza – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
This paper reports on an international experience designed, within a sociocultural frame, for teacher education students to examine theoretical knowledge and make visible local knowledge on diversity issues, and the interrelatedness and complexity of language, literacy and culture and its impact on educational practices. It examines the context of…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Indigenous Knowledge, International Education, Educational Practices
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Boyer, Paul – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2006
The article presents the author's views on the important role of tribal colleges in shaping the social and cultural development of their tribes. The author says that even small tribal colleges can manage programs that promote wellness, economic development, and basic scientific research. Tribal colleges need to develop culturally based approaches…
Descriptors: American Indians, Higher Education, Values, Teaching Methods
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Hermes, Mary; Uran, Chad – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
In considering literacy, we take a step back to ask: literacy in which language? And what is the purpose and measure of achievement? Although not in disagreement with the Bialostok and Whitman article in this issue, we place English literacy as a part of the continuing drive to colonize and assimilate indigenous peoples. Local indigenous control…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Literacy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Lien, Donald – Education Economics, 2006
This paper constructs a theoretical model to evaluate the effects of borderless education on education resource allocation by a public university in a developing country. It is sometimes argued that, with sole emphasis and competence in global knowledge, borderless education will lead to the demise of local knowledge in the developing country. We…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Indigenous Knowledge, Developing Nations, Models
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Cobb, Daniel M. – American Indian Quarterly, 2007
In this article, the author talks about the experiences of many of the people involved in the Carnegie Project, an effort in the 1960s to establish ties with the "tribal community"--people who spoke Cherokee as their first language and lived in small kin-related settlements spread across five counties in northeastern Oklahoma--and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indian History, American Indian Studies
Grigorenko, Elena L.; Meier, Elisa; Lipka, Jerry; Mohatt, Gerald; Yanez, Evelyn; Sternberg, Robert J. – 2001
A growing body of empirical data suggests that there may be a true psychological distinction between academic and practical intelligence. If there is, then conventional ability tests used alone may reveal substantially less than we want to know about people's competence in everyday practical situations. Evidence to this effect is reviewed from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alaska Natives, Cultural Influences, Eskimos
Pino-Robles, Rodolfo – 2000
This paper proposes the development of Indigenous Studies as an international field, both in the sense of advancing the discipline internationally, wherever there are Indigenous peoples, and in the sense of incorporating international perspectives into curricula. In Canada, Indigenous Studies has been and is still treated as something to be done…
Descriptors: American Indian Studies, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Indigenous Knowledge
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Murguia, Alejandro; Peterson, Rolf A.; Zea, Maria Cecilia – Health & Social Work, 2003
Central American health beliefs and practices are largely influenced by religious and indigenous worldviews. Study assesses the use of ethnomedical approaches and the illnesses for which these approaches are used among 76 Central Americans. Results indicate the importance of understanding and integrating cultural and spiritual influences on…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Cultural Influences, Delivery Systems, Immigrants
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Feldman, Shelley; Welsh, Rick – Rural Sociology, 1995
Issues raised by feminist epistemic critiques of social science are used to examine local (farmer-based) knowledge of agriculture and its contribution to analyses of agricultural sustainability. Focuses on the on-farm gender division of labor as critical in constituting the family farm, and elaborates how different experiences of men and women…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Epistemology, Farmers, Feminism
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Belyea, Barbara – Great Plains Quarterly, 1997
As Lewis and Clark moved west across the North American continent, their contact with Native informants revealed spatial and topographic concepts at variance with their own "scientific" methods of cartography. The explorers' failure to understand and integrate Native patterns of geographical knowledge resulted in long detours where…
Descriptors: American Indians, Cartography, Cultural Differences, Culture Conflict
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Jacobs, Don Trent – Paths of Learning: Options for Families & Communities, 2001
A critique of the current character education phenomenon notes the religious foundation of most of its proponents. Critical questions concerning the role of the Ten Commandments in character education examine whether the underlying worldview supports diversity. Ten moral recommendations from an Indigenous perspective articulate a worldview that…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Behavior Standards, Cultural Pluralism, Indigenous Knowledge
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McGovern, Seana M. – Comparative Education Review, 2000
Reviews four books that explain modern schooling's irrelevance for many indigenous communities and that represent indigenous knowledge practices with respect: "What Is Indigenous Knowledge? Voices from the Academy"; "Escaping Education: Living as Learning within Grassroots Cultures"; "Intercultural Education and Literacy: An Ethnographic Study of…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Colonialism, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Nicholson, Rob – Natural History, 2000
Created in 1552 as a gift for Spain's king, the Badianus Manuscript is a repository of Aztec traditional medicinal knowledge and contains the earliest surviving illustrations of New World plants. At the College of Santa Cruz (Mexico City) for Aztec nobility, an Aztec healer who became the college physician compiled plant descriptions and medicinal…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, Cultural Exchange, Foreign Countries
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