scholarly journals Collaborations with Tribal Elders for Sustainability Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard D. Scheuerman ◽  
Kristine Gritter ◽  
Carrie Jim Schuster
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
River System ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Snake River ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Regional Partnerships ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Environmental sustainability studies are enhanced through local and regional partnerships between academicians and curriculum developers with members of area First Nation communities who have lived sustainably since time immemorial. Recent collaborative efforts between Seattle Pacific University’s School of Education and Snake River-Palouse tribal elder Carrie Jim Schuster have led to the development of a one semester, secondary level integrated history, geography, literature, and science curriculum investigating the indigenous peoples and environment of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia-Snake River system. Seven core principles of cultural and environmental sustainability are discussed that were formulated through this collaboration involving Northwest tribal elders.

scholarly journals ANTROPOLOGERS OG INDFØDTE FOLKS FÆLLES VIRKELIGHED: Tre beretninger

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulla Hasager
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Cultural Diversity ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Global Factor ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

Ulla Hasager: The common reality of anthropologists and Indigenous peoples: three narratives The „traditional object" of anthropology - the indigenous peoples of the world - are becoming an increasingly visible global factor with the fourth world movements for self-determination and with the United Nations’ efforts to create standards for indigenous human rights. However, at the same time as the indigenous peoples are celebrated as guardians of environmental sustainability and biological and cultural diversity - and thereby for securing the memory as well as the future of mankind - their lands and resources are coveted by multinational corporations, govemments and other agencies, their genes are patented and preserved and their cultures are recorded - most often by anthropologists. In spite of these opposing trends and threats, indigenous peoples now have a more powerful position vis-å-vis anthropologists, who on their part are beginning to acknowledge the responsibilities that come with being part of the same living world as the indigenous peoples and therefore have begun the task of revising their theoretical foundations. Not only because they want to, but because the relatively more powerful and outspoken indigenous peoples demand it. This article looks at the changing situation for indigenous peoples in the Pacific, primarily Hawai’i, and outline the consequences for the conditions of research, methods of research and publication for anthropologists.

scholarly journals Measuring the Morphology and Dynamics of the Snake River by Remote Sensing

2011 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Carl Legleiter
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Image Data ◽  
River System ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Hyperspectral Data ◽  
Snake River ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Channel Form ◽  
And Behavior

The Snake River is a central component of Grand Teton National Park, and this dynamic fluvial system plays a key role in shaping the landscape and creating diverse aquatic and terrestrial habitat. The river’s complexity and propensity for change make effective characterization of this resource difficult, however, and conventional, ground-based methods are simply inadequate. Remote sensing provides an appealing alternative approach that could facilitate resource management while providing novel insight on the factors controlling channel form and behavior. In this study, we evaluate the potential to measure the morphology and dynamics of a large, complex river system such as the Snake using optical image data. Initially, we made use of existing, publicly available images and basic digital aerial photography acquired in August 2010. Analysis to date has focused on estimating flow depths from these data, and preliminary results indicate that remote bathymetric mapping is feasible but not highly accurate, with important constraints related to the limited radiometric resolution of these data sets. Additional, more sophisticated hyperspectral data are scheduled for collection in 2011, along with further field work.

Bee Pollination

2020 ◽  
pp. 205-223
Author(s):  
Kerry Carley Rizzuto ◽  
John Henning ◽  
Catherine Duckett
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
School Science ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Enhance Student Learning ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

The purpose of the chapter is to provide an exemplar of an inquiry-based unit on pollination for designing and implementing constructivist instructional practices while simultaneously providing outstanding teacher preparation. The unit on pollination was developed by preservice teachers through a partnership between the Monmouth Conservation Foundation and the Monmouth University School of Education. Through collective action, these institutions were able to enhance student learning on a vital part of the science curriculum, provide a rich clinical experience for pre-service teachers, and to familiarize teachers with a more constructivist approach to pre-school science instruction.

Bee Pollination

2019 ◽  
pp. 929-943
Author(s):  
Kerry Carley Rizzuto ◽  
John Henning ◽  
Catherine Duckett
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Teacher Preparation ◽  
Instructional Practices ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
School Science ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Enhance Student Learning ◽  
Outstanding Teacher

The purpose of the chapter is to provide an exemplar of an inquiry-based unit on pollination for designing and implementing constructivist instructional practices while simultaneously providing outstanding teacher preparation. The unit on pollination was developed by preservice teachers through a partnership between the Monmouth Conservation Foundation and the Monmouth University School of Education. Through collective action, these institutions were able to enhance student learning on a vital part of the science curriculum, provide a rich clinical experience for pre-service teachers, and to familiarize teachers with a more constructivist approach to pre-school science instruction.

Collaboration in the Service of Knowledge Co-Creation for Environmental Outcomes, Science and Public Policy

2011 ◽  
pp. 599-614
Author(s):  
Lynn Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Policy Actors ◽  
Learning Challenges ◽  
Occupational Values ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Policy Analytics ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

Environmental sustainability and global climate change issues intensify the need for collaborations between scientists and policymakers. Working in virtual spaces exacerbates many of the challenges inherent in these collaborative efforts. Ideal collaborations promote social learning that delivers integrated knowledge through synergies that develop across institutional, occupational and other boundaries. However, impediments arise when individuals with different specializations and degrees of expertise inhabiting different physical and psychological spaces bring different problem-solving methods and presuppositions. Values affect the potential for synergy and the ultimate products of such collaborations. Addressing social learning challenges among different disciplinary traditions requires identifying and then addressing core differences. Through examining a study of occupational values and resulting behaviors of ocean environmental policy actors, this chapter considers collaborations through theories of discourse, actor involvement, social learning, and policy analytics and offers suggestions to improve knowledge co-creation as a potential aid to these critical issues and processes.

James Clifford’s ‘Indigenous Articulations’ as Travelling Theory? The Search for Sustainability in Theorising Taiwan’s Indigenous and Han Populations

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-56
Author(s):  
Jess Marinaccio
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Original Audience

In 2000, the noted scholar James Clifford delivered an address entitled ‘Indigenous Articulations’ in which he challenged dichotomies of authenticity/inauthenticity that plague theories of indigeneity in the Pacific region. Today, ‘Indigenous Articulations’ has travelled far beyond its original audience, and some Taiwanese scholars who analyse the literature/culture of Taiwan’s indigenous peoples have adopted this work. Yet, in contrast to Clifford, these scholars have used ‘Indigenous Articulations’ to simultaneously explain indigenous and Han Taiwanese populations, positing Han-indigenous creolisation as preferable to indigenous self-determination. In this paper, I adopt travelling theory to examine ‘Indigenous Articulations’ and its movement to Taiwan studies. I then consider the works of Kuei-fen Chiu and Hueichu Chu to show how they use ‘Indigenous Articulations’ to support a creolised existence for Han and indigenous populations on Taiwan. Finally, I explore tensions between theoretical and ethical sustainability in Taiwan studies and possibilities for recognising indigenous rights in this field.

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