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Learning from nature-based indigenous knowledge: A trail to understanding elders' wisdom.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Learning from nature-based indigenous knowledge: A trail to understanding elders' wisdom./
Author:	McBee, Gabriela.
Description:	244 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-07A(E).
Subject:	Education, Curriculum and Instruction. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NS28390
ISBN:	9780499283900

Learning from nature-based indigenous knowledge: A trail to understanding elders' wisdom.
McBee, Gabriela.

Learning from nature-based indigenous knowledge: A trail to understanding elders' wisdom. - 244 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-07(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria (Canada), 2013.

Fostering collaboration among people of diverse ethnicities is vital to improving our relationships with Nature and with each other. All knowledges known to humans have their limits, including Western scientific knowledge. This study argues that Indigenous elders have a wealth of nature-based wisdom which is urgently needed. The Thirteen International Indigenous Grandmothers have been sharing their wisdom with the world and meeting them inspired this work. Two Grandmothers, one Mazatec and member of the Thirteen Grandmothers who follows in the healing tradition of curandera Maria Sabina, the other Taino (Caribbean Arawak), and several members of their families in Mexico and in Cuba kindly agreed to be research participants so that I could bring attention to their gifts and share with the world. Embodying their ancient wisdom they do not see themselves as separate from Nature but as integral part of her. Their relationships to all beings, humans, animals, plants, minerals, and spiritual entities, are imbued with love and care. They can be role models for people who have forgotten the most basic premise of respect, reciprocity, responsibility, and empathy for all our relations.

ISBN: 9780499283900Subjects--Topical Terms:

576301
Education, Curriculum and Instruction.

Learning from nature-based indigenous knowledge: A trail to understanding elders' wisdom.
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520 $a The methodologies underlying this investigation are Indigenous. I used strategies of inquiry such as storytelling, participant observation, and reflexive self study. Relationality and accountability are its pillars. Being of European descent, doing research with Indigenous elders required great vigilance on my part. I had to challenge my own conventional Western views and question the truths I am surrounded with to gain an understanding of my research participants' worldview. Even with the best of intentions all I could hope for was an approximation.
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