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(2) Integrative Science &. Two-Eyed Seeing OUTLINE FOR PRESENTATION 1. Co-Learning Journey: towards something new 2. Why: the need for something new 3. Integrative Science: our new approach 4. Two-Eyed Seeing: our Guiding Principle 5. MSIT: our new science courses (university level) 6. this new approach: all educational levels.
(3) Thank you / Wela’lioq IAPH. Eskasoni First Nation Detachment. The support of various partners and funding agencies is gratefully acknowledged..
(4) for 15+ years we have been on a Co-Learning Journey (wherein we have been our own experimental rats).
(5) Mi’kmaq Elders. Research Team. &. with. Students. Artist & Graphic Designer. Artist Basma Kavanagh. Graphic Design Kristy Read.
(6) Co-Learning Journey. praxis-based RESEARCH • integrative • community-based • participatory • action. methodologies.
(7) Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn Integrative Science. Indigenous. Western. “bringing our our our our knowledges worldviews sciences stories together” Artist Basma Kavanagh.
(8) Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn Integrative Science. our sciences our stories Indigenous our worldviews Western “bringing our knowledges together” Artist Basma Kavanagh.
(9) Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges are based in observations of the natural world.. view “SCIENCE” inclusively. Artist: Basma Kavanagh.
(10) Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges are based in observations of the natural world.. view “SCIENCE” inclusively. “stories of our interactions with and within nature”. Science is dynamic, pattern-based knowledge.. Artist: Basma Kavanagh.
(11) 15+ years ago we started a Co-Learning Journey. WHY?. 3 1 2. reasons. Artist: Basma Kavanagh.
(12) Why?. 1. Native Council of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Language Program Artist: Michael J. Martin. few Aboriginal students in post-secondary science.
(13) Why?. 2. many Aboriginal youth.
(14) Why?. 2. Because today …. Mi’kmaq and other Aboriginal youth are poised on the edge of two worlds.. Indigenous. Western.
(15) Why?. 2. Because today …. Mi’kmaq and other Aboriginal youth are poised on the edge of two worlds. losing their cultural connections.. Indigenous. Western.
(16) Why?. 2. Because …. health (individuals & communities) and transmission of Traditional Knowledge are strongly related (source: Elders & others). Indigenous. model & visual from: CINDY BLACKSTOCK http://www.win-hec.org/docs/pdfs/cindy.pdf (WIN-HEC Journal 2007). Western.
(17) Why?. 2. Because …. health (individuals & communities) and transmission of Traditional Knowledge are strongly related (source: Elders & others). Indigenous. model & visual from: CINDY BLACKSTOCK http://www.win-hec.org/docs/pdfs/cindy.pdf (WIN-HEC Journal 2007). Western.
(18) Why?. 2. Because …. health (individuals & communities) and transmission of Traditional Knowledge are strongly related (source: Elders & others) cognitional. physical. spiritual. emotional. Western.
(19) Why?. 3. Indigenous. Western. 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 Native American Scientist & Educator, Univ. of New Mexico.
(20) Why?. 3 Indigenous. Western. 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 Native American Scientist & Educator, Univ. of New Mexico.
(21) starting in the mid 1990’s. 15+ years: where our Co-Learning Journey has been. Integrative Science bringing together Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges and ways of knowing Indigenous. GUIDED BY. Western.
(22) Integrative Science &. Two-Eyed Seeing. congruent with First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model from: Canadian Council on Learning: Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre (http://www.ccl-cca/CCL).
(23) First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model from: Canadian Council on Learning: Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre (http://www.ccl-cca/CCL).
(24) First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model from: Canadian Council on Learning: Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre (http://www.ccl-cca/CCL).
(25) Integrative Science. Indigenous First Nations Holistic Lifelong Learning Model. Western. from: Canadian Council on Learning: Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre (http://www.ccl-cca/CCL).
(26) Integrative Science. Indigenous. Western. “bringing our our our our knowledges worldviews sciences stories together” Artist Basma Kavanagh.
(27) Etuaptmumk - Two-Eyed Seeing. Indigenous. Western.
(28) Two-Eyed Seeing LEARN ... to see from one eye with the best in our Indigenous ways of knowing, and from the other eye with the best in the Western (or mainstream) ways of knowing … … and learn to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all..
(29) It is not enough to go through life with one perspective; we must embrace all the tools we have ....
(30) Consciousness of Knowing … our interdependence on each other and on Mother Earth -----------------------------------------------------------. All people must learn. “Two-Eyed Seeing”. artist Basma Kavanagh. so that knowledge of the physical is not separated from wisdom of the spiritual..
(31) Two-Eyed Seeing teaches you to awaken the spirit within you. You become a student of life … and you become observant of the natural world … and realize we humans are part and parcel of the whole..
(32) artist Basma Kavanagh. everything that we do to our natural world … we also do to ourselves.
(33) Our language teaches us about interdependence. Nature has rights. Humans have responsibilities..
(34) Our language teaches us that everything alive is both physical and spiritual. The onus is on the person to look at our natural world with two perspectives. Modern science sees objects, but our language teaches us to see subjects. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(35) Humans are a very small part of the whole. Our natural world provides for us, shelters us, nourishes us. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(36) Our language takes us into a Life Long Journey.. artist Basma Kavanagh. artwork: Eskasoni Elementary School Children.
(37) Knowledge is not a tool but rather it is a spirit.. It transforms the holder. It also reminds us that we have responsibilities to the spirit of that knowledge. We must pass it on. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(38) Our seasons follow the cycles of Mother Earth … … so that our children will always be reminded of the beauty of creation, and of our dependence on her. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(39) Like nature, we must always have a nurturing component..
(40) Seven Generations. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(41) Netukulimk developing the skills and sense of responsibility required to become a protector of other species. http://myanimalblog.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/g-bull-moose.jpg. http://blog.silive.com/weather/200 7/09/red-maple-tree.jpg. http://www.krisweb.com/krissheepscot/krisdb/html/kris web/aqualife/atlantic_salmon_asc_beland.jpg http://www.greenexpander.com/wpcontent/uploads/2007/09/gex-bald-eagle.jpg.
(42) Life, Land, Language, Love. artist Basma Kavanagh.
(43) As Elders in Our Time We seek to be a conduit for wisdom of our Ancestors. We seek to see with “TwoEyes” ... to take the accomplishments of Western Science further by blending it with the wisdom of our Ancestors..
(44) Tatapn (North Star) Muin and the Seven Bird Hunters: a Mi’kmaq Night Sky Story … interconnectiveness of space-time-life-knowledge-spirit.
(45) Winter. Autumn Spring. Northern Horizon. Summer.
(46) Winter. Autumn Spring. Summer.
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(49) MSIT university science courses. 401 & 403. 4th 3rd 301 & 303. 101 & 103. 1st year within degree program. 201 & 203.
(50) MSIT content. 1 Mi’kmaq community Elders, resource people & organizations, TK events in community. 2 TK literature. 6. co-learning RESEARCH. 5. Western science: cosmology-physicschemistry-geology-biology-consciousness. 4. 3 students out-of-doors. Aboriginal concepts, pedagogy, language.
(51) Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education 2009; Vol. 9(3): 141-153.
(52) Fall 2009: article titles.
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(58) Wela’lioq Thank you.
(59) Thank you / Wela’lioq IAPH. Eskasoni First Nation Detachment. The support of various partners and funding agencies is gratefully acknowledged..
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