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What are the benefits of using indigenous knowledge in environmental education?

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Indigenous knowledge is the collective wisdom and practices of local communities that have adapted to their natural environments over generations. It is often overlooked or marginalized in mainstream environmental education, which tends to focus on scientific and technical approaches. However, using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can offer many benefits for learners, educators, and the environment. Here are some of them.

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1 Cultural relevance

Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can make learning more relevant and meaningful for learners who belong to or interact with indigenous communities. It can help them appreciate their own cultural heritage and identity, as well as respect and understand the diversity and complexity of other cultures. It can also foster a sense of belonging and responsibility for the local environment, and inspire them to take action to protect and restore it.

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Rev. Dele

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Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education decolonizes the existing body of knowledge. The impact of this decolonization is that we all will learn how to master our emotional, kinetic and nature intelligences. We will learn how to embody the seasons and cycles of life within humanity as well as the natural world. In fact we will stop separating humans from creation so that we remember how to be beneficial participants within creation.

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Maura Abad

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What are the benefits of using indigenous knowledge in environmental education? Keeping the know how Respecting the cultures Authenticity and responsability

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2 Holistic perspective

Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can also provide a holistic and integrated perspective on environmental issues and solutions. Indigenous knowledge often encompasses spiritual, ethical, social, and ecological dimensions of human-environment relationships, and recognizes the interdependence and interconnectedness of all living beings. It can help learners develop a broader and deeper awareness of the causes and consequences of environmental problems, as well as the values and principles that guide sustainable practices.

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3 Practical skills

Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can also enhance learners' practical skills and competencies for environmental stewardship. Indigenous knowledge often involves hands-on and experiential learning, such as observing, experimenting, and applying traditional techniques and technologies for managing natural resources, coping with environmental changes, and enhancing resilience. It can help learners acquire useful and transferable skills, such as critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and collaboration.

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Hands on knowledge, or Kinetic learning is a very overlooked asset in our very linear world. This style of learning helps to embody the knowledge and balance our worldview about what is important.

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4 Mutual learning

Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can also create opportunities for mutual learning and dialogue between different knowledge systems and stakeholders. It can encourage learners and educators to acknowledge and respect the validity and diversity of different forms of knowledge, and to seek ways to complement and enrich each other. It can also foster partnerships and networks among indigenous communities, environmental educators, researchers, policy makers, and other actors who share a common interest and responsibility for the environment.

Using indigenous knowledge in environmental education can bring many benefits for learners, educators, and the environment. However, it also requires careful and respectful approaches that avoid appropriation, distortion, or exploitation of indigenous knowledge, and that honor the rights and interests of indigenous peoples. It also requires ongoing reflection and evaluation to ensure that the use of indigenous knowledge is relevant, appropriate, and effective for the intended purposes and contexts of environmental education.

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Hannah Calloway

Education Design & Facilitation for Actionable Climate Resilience
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Reciprocity and consistency are key to building the trusting relationships necessary for "mutual learning". Non-Tribal entities are not entitled to Indigenous trust. Too often, the onus of explaining knowledge exploitation and cultural appropriation is left to Indigenous partners of non-Tribal Environmental Education organizations. How is your organization consistently and intentionally showing up in acts of reciprocity with Indigenous partners? How do you ensure that your work will UPLIFT Indigenous knowledge rather than USE Indigenous knowledge? This distinction is critically important. (Writing from the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe, ancestors of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. I descend from Hungary and Scotland)

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5 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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