Midterm #1 Flashcards
Who coined the term Orientalism and what is it?
Edward Said (1978)
Studies of Asian societies by Western scholars
What did Paulo Freire write about?
1971
Critical consciousness and participatory education. Life long education
Pedagogy
Having to do with teaching/education
Epistemology
Study of knowledge and truth and how it forms worldview
3 types of Aboriginal Peoples recognized by Canadian constitution
Indian, Métis, Inuit
2 Reasons Stories are Important
- Indigenous stories and place names hold cultural knowledge and worldviews
- often teach about the geography and ecology.
Story behind the name “America”
From Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, who explored the new continents for Spain and Portugal
Edmonton Indigenous name and Meaning
Beaver Hills House
Amiskwacîwâskahikan
Amisk-wa-ski-ah-I-again
Who is Tomson Highway and what is the book we read from?
Laughing with the Trickster
Learning about language and how people assume all Indigenous worldviews are the same when they aren’t. There are 100 Indigenous languages and Nehiyo has the most speakers.
Place Names in Canada that are Nehiyo
Manitoba (Manito-wapâw), Saskatchewan, Amiskwachîwâskahikan
Where does the word “Amisk” come from according to Tomson Highway
Means “beaver” and comes from a beaver’s hiss.
Metaphor of Braiding Sweetgrass
Braiding different pedagogies and connecting with land and people.
2 Proponents of the perspective if Modern/Western Science
Descartes and Newton
Break down the acronym of TEK
Tradition: cumulative knowledge as a process that is open to change
Ecology: general jnowledge of the natural world from experience, interaction, and interdependence
Differences between TEK and Western Science
TEK is embedded in local culture and bound to local knowledge and sees local enviro as irreplaceable with its own agency.
W. Science uses universalism and individualism with binaries in a nature that is inanimate
Similarities between TEK and Western Science
Both have qualitative and quantitative data, use experiments and collect data
What is the Knowledge-Practice-Belief Framework?
Local knowledge systems and resource management affect sock institutions which also affects worldview. All of it is connected and overlapping
Factors to Influence your “Environmental Compass”
Past experiences, teachers, stories, and classes
When was Canadian Constitution and Charter of Rights and Freedoms signed?
April 17, 1982