Learning and Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today
Paris: UNESCO (2009), 127 pp.
Contains illustrations
"The book is organised into three sections. The first addresses the link between indigenous knowledge and indigenous language, and explores the opportunities this interconnection provides for understanding and countering declines in both. The second section examines how the loss of indigenous knowledge due to insensitive school programmes may be countered by integrating indigenous knowledge and languages into school curricula. The third section explores the need for the revitalisation of indigenous ways of learning, generally outside of a classroom environment, and how this may be practically viable in modern contexts." (Structure of the book, page 6-7)
The indigenous peoples of Venezuela in search of a participative and intercultural education for their survival / Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller, 11
Sustaining indigenous languages and indigenous knowledge: developing community training approaches for the 21st century / Margaret Florey, 25
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and biocultural diversity: a close-up look at linkages, delearning trends, and changing patterns of transmission / Stanford Zent, 39
Biodiversity regeneration and intercultural knowledge transmission in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Ishizawa & Grimaldo Rengifo, 59
Loss of traditional practices, loss of knowledge, and the sustainability of cultural and natural resources: a case of Urak Lawoi people in the Adang Archipelago, Southwest Thailand / Supin Wongbusarakum, 73
Transmitting indigenous knowledge through the school curriculum in a diminishing bio-cultural environment: the case of Botswana / Herman M. Batibo, 87
Learning and Inuit knowledge in Nunavut, Canada / Peter Bates, 95
African hunter-gatherers: threats and opportunities for maintaining indigenous knowledge systems of biodiversity / Nigel Crawhall, 107
Sustaining indigenous languages and indigenous knowledge: developing community training approaches for the 21st century / Margaret Florey, 25
Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and biocultural diversity: a close-up look at linkages, delearning trends, and changing patterns of transmission / Stanford Zent, 39
Biodiversity regeneration and intercultural knowledge transmission in the Peruvian Andes / Jorge Ishizawa & Grimaldo Rengifo, 59
Loss of traditional practices, loss of knowledge, and the sustainability of cultural and natural resources: a case of Urak Lawoi people in the Adang Archipelago, Southwest Thailand / Supin Wongbusarakum, 73
Transmitting indigenous knowledge through the school curriculum in a diminishing bio-cultural environment: the case of Botswana / Herman M. Batibo, 87
Learning and Inuit knowledge in Nunavut, Canada / Peter Bates, 95
African hunter-gatherers: threats and opportunities for maintaining indigenous knowledge systems of biodiversity / Nigel Crawhall, 107
