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Educating for a Sustainable World: Bringing Together Indigenous and Western Knowledges

Educating for a Sustainable World: Bringing Together Indigenous and Western Knowledges
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Author(s): Asaf Zohar (Trent University, Canada)and David R. Newhouse (Trent University, Canada)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 17
Source title: Intellectual, Scientific, and Educational Influences on Sustainability Research
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Rosario Adapon Turvey (Lakehead University, Canada)and Sreekumari Kurissery (Lakehead University, Canada)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7302-9.ch006

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Abstract

Educating for a sustainable future and learning to live within our planetary limits is the most pressing challenge of our times. In this chapter, the authors present an emerging model of transcultural education that brings together Indigenous and western knowledges. This approach aims to engage learners from different cultures and knowledge traditions with the purpose of guiding them through ideas and processes of imagining, listening, speaking, and working together in a way that respects differences, acknowledges common ground, and seeks to co-create new knowledges. Bringing together Indigenous and Western knowledges in this manner creates a unique context that can potentially build the mindsets, skills, and dispositions that are needed for living and managing sustainably. A pedagogy grounded in this approach can potentially promote student interest and engagement across cultural and social divides, foster successful learning about bridging social inequalities, and cultivate an ethos of social, cultural, and environmental responsibility.

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