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(2) IAPH. Mi’kmaq Elders.
(3) “Two-Eyed Seeing” seeing with the strengths of each & together. Indigenous. Western. Mr. Albert Marshall, Mi’kmaq Elder Eskasoni First Nation.
(4) Native Council of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Language Program Artist: Michael J. Martin.
(5) WHY???? Because today … Mi’kmaq and other Aboriginal young people are poised on the edge of two worlds.. Indigenous. Western.
(6) WHY???? Because today … Mi’kmaq and other Aboriginal young people are poised on the edge of two worlds.. Indigenous. Western.
(7) WHY???? Because today … The central dilemma of science education is the teaching of science from only one perspective … Gregory Cajete, PhD, scientist & educator, Univ. of New Mexico. Western.
(8) WHY???? Because today … The real barrier to environmental change could be our faith in [Western] science. (Globe & Mail, 28 October 2006: article on book by George Monbiot “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”). Western.
(9) Mi’kmaq World View Mother Earth provides for us, shelters us, nourishes us. We must look to her good examples for guidance.. from: Mi’kmaq Family and Children Services from: “Winds of Change” Roy Thomas, Ahnisnabae-born Ojibwa artist; 1949-2004.
(10) Go into a forest, you see the birch, maple, pine. Look underground and all those trees are holding hands. We as people must do the same. (late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder, and Healer Charlie Labrador). Indigenous. Western.
(11) from Two Eyes. Indigenous. Western.
(12) from Two Eyes domain of the. unknown. Change domain of the. known.
(13) domain of the. unknown. Change domain of the. known.
(14) Eagle ONE WHO SEES BIG PATTERNS domain of the. unknown. domain of the. known. must become PATTERN-able Douglas J. Cardinal; world renown architect.
(15) Science from Two Eyes. Indigenous. Western. use a “PATTERN-able” approach.
(16) stories of our interactions with and within nature. Science Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges are based in observations of the natural world. Both result from the same intellectual process of creating order (pattern) out of disorder.. Artist Basma Kavanagh.
(17) stories of our interactions with and within nature. Science Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges are based in observations of the natural world. Both result from the same intellectual process of creating order (pattern) out of disorder, and then communicating this to others (stories).. Artist Basma Kavanagh.
(18) stories of our interactions with and within nature. Science Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges are based in observations of the natural world. Both result from the same intellectual process of creating order (pattern stories). Artist Basma Kavanagh. PATTERN RECOGNITION. Science is pattern-based knowledge..
(19) stories of our interactions with and within nature. PATTERN • recognition • transformation • expression Artist Basma Kavanagh. • various human pattern smarts • various ways to connect the dots • variety in our stories.
(20) PATTERN • recognition • transformation • expression Artist Basma Kavanagh. • various human pattern smarts • various ways to connect the dots • variety in our stories.
(21) Artist Basma Kavanagh. Indigenous and Western Sciences are pattern-based knowledges. Our stories may differ … due to the richness of “pattern smarts” employed..
(22) “human pattern smarts” multiple intelligences (brain-based theory, H. Gardner, Harvard Univ.) possible mapping onto four quadrants.
(23) stories of our interactions with and within nature. “pattern smarts”.
(24) stories of our interactions with and within nature. Science. Periodic Table of the Elements.
(25) stories of our interactions with and within nature. “pattern smarts”.
(26) stories of our interactions with and within nature. Science Life Love Land.
(27) Two-Eyed Seeing: strengths key concepts & actions - respect -. relationship reverence reciprocity ritual repetition responsibility. - hypothesis (making & testing). - data collection - data analysis - model & theory construction.
(28) Two-Eyed Seeing: strengths languages & methodologies. vigour Life, Love, Land. WEAVING. rigour Mathematics. UN-WEAVING.
(29) Two-Eyed Seeing: strengths overall knowledge objectives. towards resonance of understanding within environment. towards construction of understanding of environment.
(30) Two-Eyed Seeing one Creation: plural views. interconnected. parts & wholes.
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(32) participatory creative choice. Wjipenuk Etek Lnuimlkikno’ti - Spirit of the East East (sunrise) … a place of beginnings and enlightenment … where new knowledge can be created or received to bring about harmony or right relations..
(33) Physical Direction. East (sunrise) … measurement of the time of sunrise … for each new day over the course of one full year.. detached & instrumental.
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(35) “pattern seeing”. Mte’skmwaqsi “snakes – plants bunched”. fiddlehead fern [M. struthiopteris].
(36) what our “pattern seeing” (re)generates. subject-subject. ecoreflexive & participatory. connectedness. subject - object. cognocentric & detached. disconnectedness.
(37) what we “see” as: HUMAN. heart-brain. cognitional neocortex. physical. spiritual. limbic cerebellum brain stem. emotional.
(38) what we “see” as: MOTHER-CHILD. from: Mi’kmaq Family & Children’s Services.
(39) what we “see” as: HUMAN HEALTH. Artist: Rod Restoule from: Into the Daylight; C. Morrisseau, 1998.
(40) Language has Spirit. Language allows us to teach respect. Oqwatnuk (North) … wisdom. Tkisnuk (West) … unknown. Wjipnuk (East) … newness. Pkite’snuk (South) … fullness.
(41) Puppets have “magic”. Puppets allow us to teach language..
(42) How Bullfrog Learns His Lesson.
(43) The Healing Tense Heals “[Bullfrog] has taken his misdeeds and placed them in front of him and walked around them, and said yes, I was there.” (Murdena Marshall, in conversation with Ivar Mendez).
(44) We Heal Together “…when he goes into this healing tense, then my attitude has to change … everybody in the household, everybody … has to abide with him.” (Murdena Marshall, in conversation with Ivar Mendez).
(45) Generalize ketkiya – I am drunk ketkiyayop – I was drunk ketkiyayasnek – I was drunk.
(46) Love is the main ingredient of wellness. Murdena Marshall.
(47) albertmarshall @ns.sympatico.ca. cheryl_bartlett @cbu.ca marilyniwama @hotmail.com.
(48) Co-Learning It is not enough to just value the links between the experiences, disciplines, creativity, and ideas (as in inter & multi disciplinarity) … … in trans - disciplinary work … … in trans - cultural work …. … one has to develop methods, strategies, and practices that will transform those links to the real connections. [adapted from Ron Burnett at http://www.chocuk.net/troupe/isin_onol1.html].
(49) Co-Learning It is not enough to just value the links between the experiences, disciplines, creativity, and ideas (as in inter & multi disciplinarity) … … in trans - disciplinary work … … in trans - cultural work …. … one has to develop methods, strategies, and practices that will transform those links to the real connections. [adapted from Ron Burnett at http://www.chocuk.net/troupe/isin_onol1.html].
(50) UNESCO: 2000. NRC: 2001.
(51) ?.
(52) PATTERN-BASED KNOWLEDGE.
(53) Wela’lioq. albertdmarshall @ns.sympatico.ca. Thank You. cheryl_bartlett @cbu.ca mjiwama @gmail.com.
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