Designing programs that value traditional ecological knowledge

October 23rd, 2014 | RESEARCH

Hamlin provides a how-to guide for leveraging traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to teach science in indigenous contexts. Her process uses the Vitality Index of Traditional Ecological Knowledge with ethnography to identify TEK. She describes how a community-driven program used TEK to expand the learning opportunities of a historically oppressed group: Maya women in Guatemala.

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Kerri Wingert, Author, University of Washington

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Audience: Educators | Teachers | General Public | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Ecology | forestry | agriculture | Education and learning science
Resource Type: Research Brief | Research Products
Environment Type: Afterschool Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs | Public Programs