Indigenous Science Network Bulletin
Nov 23rd, 2008 by Steffanie Reid
Website: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~mmichie/april06.htm
This is a website dedicated to distributing information about events pertaining to Indigenous science and it’s integration into Western education.
This particular link will take you to the April, 2006 edition of the bulletin, where a research proposal by two students of the University of Victoria, BC is highlighted.
This proposal, entitled “The Aboriginal Knowledge and Science Education Research Project” aims to investigate the reasons behind low Aboriginal representation in senior science courses leading to University eligibility, such as Biology 12, Chemistry 12 and Physics 12.
The authors discuss the need for Aboriginal students to gain science or mathematics related degrees, and hopes to correlate a lack of indigenous knowledge in the senior science courses curricula, with the low participation levels of Aboriginal students.
Research plans include interviewing students and teachers in the BC school system, conferring with Aboriginal communities to identify examples of indigenous knowledge to incorporate into science classrooms, and working towards the development of an indigenous science course.