Discovering indigenous science: implications for science education. Science Education 85 1 Introduction Where to start? Common questions Guideline protocols Teacher support materials. Common questions What is Indigenous Knowledge? Bibliography What is Indigenous Knowledge?
Another approach is that science and Indigenous Knowledge represent two different views of the world around us: science focuses on the component parts whereas Indigenous Knowledge presents information about the world in a holistic way. With this analysis it is possible to see how one system can complement the other.
An alternative strategy is to explore other aspects of fire in the cultural life of the local Indigenous community. Certainly Aboriginal people burn the landscape to create better hunting areas and to increase production of valued resources but they also believe that they have a responsibility to their ancestors.
Indigenous knowledge of fire has been passed on through language, songs, rituals and social organisation in which words, designs and relationships are the keys to knowing how to interact with the environment. Individual people have rights to burn in a particular location not only on the basis of their ecological knowledge but also because of their relationships to the traditional owners of that country.
To understand Aboriginal use of fire ecology science students need this broader understanding of cultural knowledge which is essential to understand the ways in which Indigenous people have successfully managed the environment over the long term. Bibliography Agrawal, Arun. On the one hand, TK and other types of local knowledge are valued when they support or supplements archaeological, or other scientific evidence. Are Indigenous and Western systems of knowledge categorically antithetical?
Or do they offer multiple points of entry into knowledge of the world, past and present? There are many cases where science and history are catching up with what Indigenous peoples have long known. In the past two decades, archaeologists and environmental scientists working in coastal British Columbia have come to recognize evidence of mariculture — the intentional management of marine resources — that pre-dates European settlement.
Kwaxsistalla Chief Adam Dick with a butter clam. Nancy Turner. As marine ecologist Amy Groesbeck and colleagues have demonstrated , these structures increase shellfish productivity and resource security significantly.
This resource management strategy reflects a sophisticated body of ecological understanding and practice that predates modern management systems by millennia. These published research studies now prove that Indigenous communities knew about mariculture for generations but Western scientists never asked them about it before.
Once tangible remains were detected, it was clear mariculture management was in use for thousands of years. There is a move underway by various Indigenous communities in the region to restore and recreate clam gardens and put them back into use.
A second example demonstrates how Indigenous oral histories correct inaccurate or incomplete historical accounts. There are significant differences between Lakota and Cheyenne accounts of what transpired at the Battle of Greasy Grass Little Big Horn in , and the historical accounts that appeared soon after the battle by white commentators.
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Environ Evid 8, 36 Download citation. Received : 27 June Accepted : 28 October Published : 14 November One key attribute of Western science is developing and then testing hypotheses to ensure rigor and replicability in interpreting empirical observations or making predictions. Although hypothesis testing is not a feature of TEK, rigor and replicability are not absent. Whether or not traditional knowledge systems and scientific reasoning are mutually supportive, even contradictory lines of evidence have value.
Employing TK-based observations and explanations within multiple working hypotheses ensures consideration of a variety of predictive, interpretive or explanatory possibilities not constrained by Western expectation or logic. And hypotheses incorporating traditional knowledge-based information can lead the way toward unanticipated insights. The travels of Glooscap , a major figure in Abenaki oral history and worldview, are found throughout the Mi'kmaw homeland of the Maritime provinces of eastern Canada.
As a Transformer, Glooscap created many landscape features. Some do appreciate the verification, and there are partnerships developing worldwide with Indigenous knowledge holders and Western scientists working together. This includes Traditional Ecological Knowledge informing government policies on resource management in some instances. But it is nonetheless problematic when their knowledge, which has been dismissed for so long by so many, becomes a valuable data set or used selectively by academics and others.
Or we can say that the Western scientists finally caught up with TK after several thousand years. Portsmouth Climate Festival — Portsmouth, Portsmouth.
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