Cheryl Bartlett

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(1)Cheryl Bartlett Professor of Biology Canada Research Chair In Integrative Science. Aboriginal & Western sciences: pattern consciousness Association of Science Teachers – Nova Scotia – Conference 2004 “SLIDE into Science, Literacy, Inquiry, Discovery, Educate” Halifax, NS; 22 October 2004.

(2) The central dilemma of science education today is the teaching of science from only one cultural perspective, and in an incomplete and non-connected manner. Gregory Cajete, PhD, Univ. of New Mexico.

(3) Outline of presentation 1. science education … dilemma re cultural diversity 2. all cultures converse with Nature … what language? 3. pattern & pattern smarts 4. Integrative Science … “co-seeing”: bringing Western & Aboriginal knowledges together - aspects - common ground - differences - forward together. 5. human consciousness 6. metaphor 7. conclusion.

(4) … “converse” with Mother Nature … what language?.

(5) recognize pattern.

(6) pattern.

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(14) after conversing with Mother Nature … what language do we use to express and share our understandings?.

(15) “pattern smarts” multiple intelligences theory (H. Gardner, Harvard Univ.).       . numbers language music body spatial other people self naturalist. use … tied to cultural value. (logical-mathematical) (linguistic) (musical) (body-kinesthetic) (spatial) (interpersonal) (intrapersonal). (naturalist) --------------------------------------------------- spiritual / existential .

(16) The central dilemma of science education today is the teaching of science from only one cultural perspective, and in an incomplete and non-connected manner. Gregory Cajete, PhD, Univ. of New Mexico. science “Western”.


(18) INTEGRATIVE SCIENCE. Artist Basma Kavanagh.

(19) INTEGRATIVE SCIENCE. Artist Basma Kavanagh.

(20) INTEGRATIVE SCIENCE. Traditional Knowledge. TK. Western Science. Science. “bringing knowledges together” Aboriginal – Western scientific.

(21) Integrative Science … is: university science * education. plus other arenas of relevance. Sydney Nova Scotia. 4 year degree program.

(22) Integrative Science … relevance: Where?. Community Resource management Health. “Sense of …”. Stewardship/Sustainability Environmental issues Ecology. Interpretation. Education Artist Basma Kavanagh.

(23) TK & Science …. “integrative framework” “integrative” … both, plus • • • •. our role (you & me) in “the knowing” our common ground our differences our journey forward, together vs.. “integrated” … science, plus bits and pieces of TK.

(24) KNOWLEDGE … a resourceful capacity of being that creates the context and texture of life, a living process to be absorbed and understood … in a specific ecological context (Battiste 2002) … awareness and understanding of facts, truths, or information gained in the form of experience or learning … and an appreciation of interconnected details (all-science-fair-projects.com) … understanding accumulated by systematic study and organized by general principles, with mathematics as much of the basis (FreeDictionary.com).

(25) How? 1. Integrative Science. Mi’kmaq community Elders, resource people & organizations, TK events in community. 2. 3. TK literature. 6 5 Western science: cosmology-physicschemistry-geology-biology-consciousness. 4. students out-of-doors. Aboriginal concepts & pedagogy.

(26) 6. Univ. of Alaska (Fairbanks). 7 common ground pattern recognition. from: Handbook for culturally responsive science curriculum; S. Stephens, 2000.

(27) INTEGRATIVE SCIENCE Why?. Artist Basma Kavanagh.

(28) University Science Students UCCB 1999-2004: 80-90 Mi’kmaq students … 1st year science.

(29) University Science Students UCCB 2004-2005: Mi’kmaq science students (approx.) • 1st yr: 10 • 2nd yr: 12 • 3rd yr: 6 • 4th yr: 10 -------------------------• grads: 4.

(30) Integrative Science. SSHRC. Our Journey, forward … together enriching the common ground … pattern recognition … into science curricula.

(31) common ground PATTERN RECOGNITION. Artist Basma Kavanagh.

(32) Artist Basma Kavanagh.

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(34) TK. Science.

(35) TK. Science.

(36) “co-seeing”. TK. Science.

(37) “co-seeing” how the world hangs together. TK interconnected. Science parts & wholes.

(38) “co-seeing” methodology. TK WEAVING. Science UN-WEAVING.

(39) “co-seeing” language & methodology “vigour”. TK WEAVING. &. “rigour”. Science UN-WEAVING.

(40) “co-seeing” overall knowledge objective. towards resonance of understanding. WEAVING. towards construction of understanding. UN-WEAVING.

(41) WEAVING. UN-WEAVING. - data collection - relationship - data analysis - respect - hypothesis - reverence (induction, deduction) - reciprocity testing - ritual theory - repetition - responsibility “vigour language” & “rigour language”.

(42) common ground.

(43) recognize. environmental patterns. express.

(44) common ground.

(45) “pattern smarts” express recognize environmental patterns. common ground.

(46) “pattern smarts” participatory interconnectedness. masterful prediction & control. all my relations . numbers. . language music body spatial all creatures self naturalist spiritual.       . WEAVING. mathematical models environmental patterns. differences. . numbers. . language. . naturalist. UN-WEAVING.

(47) PATTERN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK. Mother Earth.

(48) PATTERN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK natural ideal abstract. Mother Earth.

(49) PATTERN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK natural ideal abstract outer inner outer. Mother Earth recognize pattern express pattern.

(50) PATTERN CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK natural ideal abstract outer inner outer. via. observe. interpret. expression share.

(51) “co-seeing” interconnected. towards resonance of understanding. WEAVING. parts & wholes. towards construction of understanding. UN-WEAVING.

(52) “co-seeing” “The fool on the hill sees the sun going down, while the eyes in his head see the earth spinning round.”.

(53) see the sun going down / see the earth spinning round. TK. Science. WEAVING. UN-WEAVING.

(54) “seeing” interconnected. towards resonance of understanding. WEAVING. parts & wholes. towards construction of understanding. UN-WEAVING.

(55) see the sun going down. towards resonance of understanding. WEAVING.

(56) Medicine Wheel layered pattern (weave towards resonance): natural ideal abstract. sunrise EAST. sunset WEST. sunrise EAST. Grandfather Sun & Mother Earth PATTERN … “lived relationships”.

(57) Murdena Marshall, Elder, Eskasoni First Nation. WEAVING.

(58) image from: “The Sacred Tree” by: Lane, Bopp, Bopp, Brown and Elders, 1984. published by: Four Worlds International Institute. WEAVING. “all my relations”. an expanding sense of wholeness and connectedness.

(59) PARTICIPATORY INTERCONNECTEDNESS WEAVING towards resonance of understanding.

(60) WEAVING “The younger generation has largely been denied the connection to see how Nature works.”. Cover illustration by: Rod Restoule From: Into the Daylight; C. Morrisseau, 1998. Albert Marshall, Elder, Eskasoni First Nation.

(61) 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). WEAVING. TK & Science.

(62) WEAVING. The Whales that wash up on our shores bring a message: we must take better care of our waters. (late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder, and Healer Charlie Labrador).

(63) WEAVING example. Keptewiku’s “thin ice forming time” (November). landscape-inthe-language.

(64) The central dilemma of science education today is the teaching of science from only one cultural perspective, and in an incomplete and non-connected manner. Gregory Cajete, PhD, Univ. of New Mexico. “Aboriginal”. “Western”.

(65) “seeing” interconnected. towards resonance of understanding. WEAVING. parts & wholes. towards construction of understanding. UN-WEAVING.

(66) see the earth spinning round. towards construction of understanding. UN-WEAVING.

(67) Periodic Table of the Elements layered pattern (un-weave to re-build): natural ideal abstract. PATTERN. UN-WEAVING RE-WEAVING.

(68) MASTERFUL PREDICTION & CONTROL UN-WEAVING towards construction RE-WEAVING of understanding.

(69) 9-12. 6-8. Structure of Matter: Atoms and Molecules. benchmark connection. 3-5. strand RE-WEAVING. K-2. Atlas of Science Literacy Project 2061 American Association for the Advancement of Science.

(70) MASTERFUL PREDICTION & CONTROL UN-WEAVING towards construction RE-WEAVING of understanding.


(72) difference pattern human consciousness variation.

(73) metaphor.

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(78) acknowledgments. MCI. UINR.

(79) Thank you Wela’lioq. Artist Basma Kavanagh.

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