#Indigenous #STEAM #education program - Supporting Indigenous resurgence through (re)making relations w/lands, waters, & each other toward equitable futures
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Thank you to guest editors Anna Lees of @WWU and Megan Bang of @NorthwesternU; senior editor Gail Boldt of @PSU_CollegeOfEd; and contributors Forrest Bruce and @nikkimc_barry of @sesp_nu @IndigenousSTEAM (1/3)
Guest edited by our own Dr. Anna Lees!
Read the new #BankStreet #OccasionalPaperSeries 48—"Learning Within Socio-Political Landscapes: (Re)imagining Children’s Geographies"—featuring 7 essays that extend, critique, and reimagine what it means to center young people’s worlds and ways of knowing. bankstedu.info/3Ulfy0D
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Today is World Soil Day, a day to engage in conversations around healthy soil. Check out @IndigenousSTEAM & their soil learning resources, including a soil composition test by Jeanette Bushnell (Anishinaabe) at youtube.com/watch?v=88e6nmaf…
ALT Over a background image of a hand in soil, brown text over a pink circle reads: "World Soild Day. Check out this Soil Learning Activity from Indigenous STEAM." In a transparent box, the title reads: "Dirt Composition Jar Test." There is a photograph of a Jeanette Bushnell (Anishinaabe) holding a jar and wearing a teal shirt with the logo of Indigenous STEAM on it. There is a screenshot of the soil textural triangle with example blue, green, and peach lines.
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New #BankStreet #OccasionalPaperSeries 48 explores the use of contemporary tools to further children’s understanding of geography and their environment and deepen learning around socio-political issues. Read the full issue: bankstedu.info/3uajkiH
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The Biology Department @YorkUScience invites **Indigenous Biology Scholars** to apply for a professorial stream tenure-track appointment in Biology at the Assistant, Associate or Full Professor levels. Applications due Jan 6. Plz share widely! webapps.yorku.ca/academichir…
Oose! Miigwech! Thank you! #TeachClimateChat
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Like @nikkimc_barry said, building relationships and continuing our traditions with family and community is what gives me joy. It’s the small moments that make me feel that another world is possible, it just needs to grow – FB #TeachClimateChat
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In ISTEAM and in daily life, the move for me to find joy and happiness in the face of climate change is to engage in everyday acts of Indigenous resurgence. – @nikkimc_barry #TeachClimateChat 1/3
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From braiding my son’s hair everyday, practicing my language with my family, teaching kids about plants and birds, to regular ceremony with my family and community, we are actively building a future where our people can thrive – @nikkimc_barry #TeachClimateChat 2/3
That is why ISTEAM is so important to me (and my kids!) ISTEAM isn’t focused on decolonization & tearing down (although those are also important!) – ISTEAM is focused on resurgence & building futures for human AND more-than-human thriving – @nikkimc_barry #TeachClimateChat 3/3
Educators (including parents, aunties, uncles, grandparents, and older siblings) can find our free community-made resources at IndigenousSTEAM.org/learning… – Also check out our sister project, LearningInPlaces.Org @LearnInPlaces #TeachClimateChat
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Our work with Indigenous youth is rooted in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, but we explicitly reach to Western Science to support our youth’s generative navigation between these ways of knowing. #TeachClimateChat 1/2
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We find it’s important to teach kids where Indigenous and Western ways of knowing are commensurate and where they are incommensurate without necessarily pitting the knowledge systems against each other – they are capable of holding that complexity! #TeachClimateChat 2/2
ISTEAM is community-based, meaning we design, implement, and research ISTEAM with local Indigenous community members & organizations. We have many inspirations, but .. #TeachClimateChat 1/2
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…I can probably (although cautiously!) speak for the collective that we share in common at least these inspirations: our ancestors, our children (and their children), and the lands/waters – @nikkimc_barry #TeachClimateChat 2/2
To echo @nikkimc_barry, working across generations gives me inspiration. Engaging with elders and young people puts into perspective how generations are connected across time, the importance of this work – FB #TeachClimateChat
Yes! Putting knowledge into silos is a western invention. Indigenous Knowledge Systems are inherently transdisciplinary… #TeachClimateChat 1/3
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Like @nikkimc_barry said, teaching from Indigenous knowledges means that you’re teaching across multiple disciplines. Learning about climate science is inherently connected to questions of how to be a good relative to human and more-than-human beings. - FB #TeachClimateChat 1/2
Western knowledge tends to silo such ethical questions into topics like civics or philosophy, but for Indigenous knowledge they are essential to science. - FB #Teach Climate 2/2
This hasn’t really been a challenge, but we find that what they are learning about the climate and science shows up in their writing, art, conversations, and play in interesting and inspiring ways! #TeachClimateChat 3/3