Place-Consciousness and Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Systems Model: A Discussion of Recurring Issues that Undermine the Teaching of Indigenous Histories in New Zealand and Australian Schools

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Manning
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Learning Experiences ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Tasman Sea ◽  
Ecological Systems Model ◽  
Indigenous Land

This article draws upon a ‘tale from the field’ (Van Maanen, 1988) to encourage New Zealand and Australian teachers of history and social studies to appraise how their own perceptions of place and teaching about Indigenous peoples’ histories impact upon their students’ learning. Moreover, it explains why Uri Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological systems model (despite its limitations) can assist the process of critiquing the teaching of Indigenous histories in schools on both sides of the Tasman Sea. It concludes that place conscious Indigenous land-based learning experiences, resulting from mutually beneficial collaborations with Indigenous communities, are needed to enhance the teaching of Indigenous peoples’ histories in both countries.

scholarly journals “Walking in Two Worlds”: Towards an Indigenist Ecological Systems Model for Group Therapy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Fish ◽  
Glenn Hirsch ◽  
Moin Syed
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Counseling Psychology ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Clinical Intervention ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Change ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Indigenous Epistemologies ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

Walking in two worlds is a common metaphor Indigenous peoples use to describe their experiences navigating the differences between Indigenous and Western epistemological and ontological worldviews across various contexts. Despite wide support for this phenomena, there have been few attempts to address Indigenous-Western cultural incongruities through structural changes in counseling psychology, though we are well-equipped as a profession to do so. Thus, we propose for counseling psychology to move towards an Indigenist Ecological Systems Model (IESM; MASKED, 2018) as an integrative framework for promoting Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies in science and practice. We provide a brief overview of IESM and a direct application of the model through a case illustration of Walking in Two Worlds, a psychotherapy group for Indigenous peoples. With IESM, we describe creating an Indigenous-informed clinical intervention that leverages Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies, prompting real ecological change. We conclude with implications IESM has for counseling psychology.

Ecologically Sustaining Research Partnerships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa M. Jozwiak ◽  
Karen L. B. Burgard
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Research Partnerships ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

It is essential that universities and local or government agencies begin to work together to do unconventional and impactful research that is mutually sustaining to both partners. When done well, the partnerships will strengthen the positions of each institution to continue to do their work and create new opportunities for equity and advancement. The challenges associated with building these types of partnerships are numerous, but even more challenges exist when the partnerships are committed to working in solidarity. To create partnerships that are examples of solidarity leading to mutual sustainability, partners must be intentional about using an ecological-systems model to shape the decision-making process. In doing so, the partners enact an Ecologically Sustaining Research Partnership (ESRP), which ensures that both partners are strengthened by and exist beyond the life of the partnership. Importantly, ESRPs are committed to equity and empowerment and use the ecological-systems model to shift the basis of power in favor of commonly oppressed groups. This emancipatory approach to research is essential for the field of early childhood, but it can also be expanded to guide partnerships between universities and communities across disciplines.

The repatriation of human remains – problem or opportunity?

Antiquity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (300) ◽  
pp. 404-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurajane Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Historical Continuity

The editor’s question “who do human skeletons belong to?” (Antiquity 78: 5) can be answered positively, but it must be answered in context. The question was prompted by reports from the Working Group on Human Remains established by the British government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in 2001 to review the current legal status of human remains held in all publicly funded museums and galleries, and to consider and review submissions on the issue of the return of non-UK human remains to their descendent communities (DCMS 2003: 1-8). In effect, the report was primarily concerned with human remains from Indigenous communities, using a definition which follows the UN Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as “distinct cultural groups having a historical continuity with pre-colonial societies that developed on their territories” (DCMS 2003:7). Consequently, the report deals primarily with the Indigenous communities of Australia, New Zealand and North America.

scholarly journals Indigenous land-based interventions and nature-oriented wellness programs: Commonalities and important differences.

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 37-45
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Sommerfeld ◽  
David Danto ◽  
Russ Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Wellness Programs ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Task Force Report ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Indigenous Mental Health ◽  
Indigenous Land

The importance of Indigenous mental health has been highlighted and affirmed by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada report (2015), the Canadian Psychological Association and The Psychology Foundation of Canada’s Task Force report responding to the TRC findings (2018), as well as numerous recent studies. Unfortunately, Indigenous Peoples in Canada continue to suffer from a lack of appropriate mental health care. Land-based interventions have been cited as one culturally appropriate approach to wellness; nevertheless, given the diversity of nature-oriented wellness programs, confusion exists over the qualities unique to and common across each program. As such, this paper will discuss the qualities of nature-oriented wellness programs currently in use by Indigenous communities (e.g. landbased interventions) with land-based approaches outside of Indigenous communities such as forest bathing, Outward Bound programs, and green or blue space research. The authors will then explore what sets Indigenous land-based interventions apart from these other wellness programs and discuss why land-based interventions hold a deeper meaning for Indigenous Peoples.

Recognition of Indigenous Land Rights in Norway and Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Øyvind Ravna ◽  
Nigel Bankes
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
International Treaties ◽  
Constitutional Protection ◽  
Aboriginal Title ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Indigenous Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Land

Many states offer constitutional protection to the traditional lands of indigenous peoples. International treaties protecting ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples also require protection of the rights of indigenous communities with respect to traditional territories. States have followed different routes in identifying the ownership and resource rights of indigenous communities. In Norway, the Courts have traditionally applied the rules on prescription and immemorial usage, developed through centuries in the farming societies of Scandinavia. The legislature has chosen to follow the same approach in the Finnmark area of Norway under the terms of the Finnmark Act (2005). By contrast, in Canada, a settled colony with an English common law tradition, the Courts have developed a sui generis approach to the recognition of Aboriginal title. This article examines the rules for identifying and legally recognising the traditional lands of indigenous people in Norway and Canada with a view to reflecting on similarities and differences.

scholarly journals Brazilian Amazon gold: indigenous land rights under risk

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Villén-Pérez ◽  
Paulo Moutinho ◽  
Caroline Corrêa Nóbrega ◽  
Paulo De Marco
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Economic Consequences ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
Indigenous Land Rights ◽  
Indigenous Land

Brazilian indigenous lands prevent the deforestation of the Amazon rainforest while protecting the land rights of indigenous peoples. However, they are at risk because they overlap with large areas of registered interest for mining. Indigenous lands have been in the spotlight of the pro-development wing of the parliament for decades, and the current president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, promised that he would open up these territories for exploitation. Recently, bill PL191/2020 was released to downgrade the protection status of indigenous lands by regulating mining activities in these territories. Mining operations have an unavoidable socio-environmental impact on indigenous communities that is difficult to compensate. First, rapid demographic growth associated with the incoming migrant workforce often causes social disruption and threat indigenous societies. Moreover, sustained pollution related to mining procedures and accidental spills largely degrade the environment and imperil indigenous health. Finally, mining operations drive deforestation both within and beyond their operational boundaries. Mining is already an essential determinant of forest loss in the Amazon, where further deforestation may result in extended droughts with significant social and economic consequences. We conclude that, if mining operations were allowed in Brazilian indigenous lands, indigenous peoples would be imperiled along with regional and global climate and economies.

scholarly journals The Role of Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory in Enhancing Interpretive Consistency in Mixed Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony John Onwuegbuzie ◽  
Kathleen M. T. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Systems Theory ◽  
Sampling Design ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Ecological Systems Theory ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Ecological Systems Model

One of the nine major threats to legitimation (i.e., the degree that integration of findings leads to credible and defensible meta-inferences) is sample legitimation integration (Onwuegbuzie & Johnson, 2006). Addressing this form of legitimation requires the researcher to maintain interpretive consistency between the selected sampling design and the inferences made from the ensuing findings.  To facilitate researchers’ efforts to address interpretive consistency, in this article, we provide a meta-sampling framework that is structured in accordance to the dimensions of Bronfenbrenner’s (1979) ecological systems model. In this meta-framework, the four dimensions of the model are juxtaposed to various types of generalizations, sampling-based considerations, and mixed sampling criteria. Application of this inclusive framework is appropriate for the conduct of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research. 

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