Discovering indigenous science: Implications for science education
[Shared by Marcelle Darby]
Authors: Gloria Snively & John Corsiglia
Abstract: Indigenous science relates to both the science knowledge of long‐resident, usually oral culture peoples, as well as the science knowledge of all peoples who as participants in culture are affected by the worldview and relativist interests of their home communities. This article explores aspects of multicultural science and pedagogy and describes a rich and well‐documented branch of indigenous science known to biologists and ecologists as traditional ecological knowledge (TEK)...