{"id":1846,"date":"2012-10-12T17:27:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T00:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:27:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T00:27:25","slug":"indigenous-knowledge-is-transformative-knowledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/2012\/10\/12\/indigenous-knowledge-is-transformative-knowledge\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Knowledge is Transformative Knowledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I venture along this cyber-journey, I am beginning to internalize the need to address our educational system so as not to fail our aboriginal learners.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a need to merge aboriginal approaches with Eurocentric ones; in a holistic and inclusive fashion.\u00a0 Here, Marie Battiste outlines some constructs that are cohesive with both systems:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> Pragmatic cooperation<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> Strands of connectedness among diverse life forms\u2014ecological, spiritual, human <\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> Humans are interdependent with nature and humans are most dependent on nature.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> Sharing and cooperation are basic precepts for life.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div align=\"left\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: small\"> Knowledge journey is central, but aided by others, both spiritual and worldly.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Marie Battiste presents an optimistic look at &#8220;post-colonialism&#8221;.\u00a0 Not that it implies after colonialism but that it presents an opportunity for reconstruction and transformation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usask.ca\/education\/people\/battistem\/csse_battiste.htm\">http:\/\/www.usask.ca\/education\/people\/battistem\/csse_battiste.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I venture along this cyber-journey, I am beginning to internalize the need to address our educational system so as not to fail our aboriginal learners.\u00a0\u00a0 There is a need to merge aboriginal approaches with Eurocentric ones; in a holistic and inclusive fashion.\u00a0 Here, Marie Battiste outlines some constructs that are cohesive with both systems: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}