From Bricolage to Métissage: Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research ([Re]thinking Environmental Education) - Softcover

Lowan-Trudeau, Gregory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433122359 ISBN 13: 9781433122354

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2015

Synopsis

Rethinking Intercultural Approaches to Indigenous Environmental Education and Research arose from a physical and philosophical journey that critically considered the relationship between Western, Indigenous, and other culturally rooted ecological knowledge systems and philosophies. This book shares two related studies that explored the life histories, cultural, and ecological identities and pedagogical experiences of Indigenous, non-Indigenous, and recently arrived educators and learners from across Canada. A variety of socio-ecological concepts including bricolage, métissage, Two-Eyed Seeing, and the Third Space are employed to (re-) frame discussions of historical and contemporary understandings of interpretive and Indigenous research methodologies, Métis cultures and identities, Canadian ecological identity, intercultural science and environmental education, «wicked problems», contemporary disputes over land and natural resource management, and related activism.

About this title

About the Author:

Gregory Lowan-Trudeau, PhD is a Métis scholar and educator. He is Assistant Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of First Nations Studies at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Greg is the 2014 recipient of the Canadian Education Association’s Pat Clifford Award for Early Career Research in Education.

Review:

«This book offers in-depth discussions that will appeal to a wide audience.»
Adam Vincent, JCACS Vol. 14, No. 1/2016)

«The empowerment teachings and practices by Indigenous peoples the world over today are especially crucial to the dawning hope for more sustainable knowledge and respectful relationships with the land and its many inhabitants. Here, Gregory Lowan-Trudeau generously theorizes, documents, and himself provides the ways in which Indigenous Environmental Education constitutes a form of integral educational leadership that is at once extremely timely and creatively emergent, but on the other hand deeply traditional and based in the long-standing understandings that can only emerge from careful partnership with nature in all of its biocultural diversity-in-place. In this, the book importantly bridges communities and scholarly debates, and I'm honored to support it as a pathway forward. For sure, this is a necessary text that every critical environmental educator and ecopedagogue should both listen to and from which they can learn.»
(Richard Kahn, PhD, Core Faculty in Education, Antioch University Los Angeles)

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1433122359
• ISBN 13: 9781433122354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 159