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Cheryl Bartlett, PhD
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Canada Research Chairin Integrative Science
Professor of Biology, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
11 February 2009; Surrey Campus
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Growing Together: Knowledge Gardening for Integrative Science (abstract)
“Integrative Science” was created at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia, in the mid-1990s. Its origins were in the post-secondary educational arena and it is the radical innovation that Mi’kmaw First Nation individuals suggested was required to begin to address the shocking under-participation by their people in university science programs and thus also in careers that require such education. Integrative Science is defined as “bringing together Indigenous and Western scientific knowledges and ways of knowing” and its arenas now extend beyond science education to include science research, applications, and outreach to Aboriginal youth and community. The presentation will share concepts developed and lessons learned over the past 15 years within a journey of “co-learning” by Integrative Science participants (university and Aboriginal community). Key insights have been to view our journey as a “growing forward” and much of our work as “knowledge gardening”. These will be explained and illustrated; consideration will also be given to “The Learning Spirit”.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
Lillian Marshall, ElderPotlotek community
Mi’kmaq Nation
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
LEARNINGSPIRIT
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
SENSE of PLACE, EMERGENCE, and PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
Territory of theBlackfoot Confederacy
Siksika Nation (Treaty 7)
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
Territory of theBlackfoot Confederacy
Siksika Nation (Treaty 7)
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INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
Mi’kmaqNation
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phrases & words
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Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative ScienceGo into a forest, you see the birch,
maple, pine. Look underground and all those trees are holding hands. We as people must do the same.
(late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder and Healer Charlie Labrador)
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative ScienceGo into a forest, you see the birch,
maple, pine. Look underground and all those trees are holding hands. We as people must do the same.
(late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder and Healer Charlie Labrador)
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative ScienceGo into a forest, you see the birch,
maple, pine. Look underground and all those trees are holding hands. We as people must do the same.
(late Mi’kmaq Chief, Spiritual Elder and Healer Charlie Labrador)
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
Growing Together:Knowledge Gardening for
Integrative Science
bringing together Indigenous and Western
scientific knowledges and ways of knowing
Indigenous Western
“bringing our knowledges together”
Integrative Science
our worldviewsour storiesour sciences
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
LESSONS LEARNED
Murdena Marshall
Albert Marshall
Lillian Marshall
Jane Meader
Elders, Mi’kmaq Nation
http://www.science.ualberta.ca/
Elders, Mi’kmaq Nation
and otherKnowledge Holdersplus variousKnowledge Gatherings
Eskasoni First Nation Detachment
Students, Mi’kmaq Nation
LESSONS LEARNED
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
1.
LESSONS LEARNED
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
Two-Eyed Seeing learning to see with the
strengths of each & together
Albert Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
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2.
Two-EyedSeeing
Elder Albert MarshallEskasoni communityMi’kmaq Nation
Elder Albert MarshallEskasoni communityMi’kmaq Nation
“LEARN ... to see from oneeye with the strengths of Indigenous knowledges andways of knowing, and fromthe other eye with the strengths of Western (or Eurocentric or mainstream) knowledges and ways of knowing … and to use both these eyes together, for the benefit of all.”
LESSONS LEARNED
view “SCIENCE”inclusively
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
Two-Eyed Seeing learning to see with the
strengths of each & together
Albert Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
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Indigenous and Westernscientific knowledges are
based in observationsof the natural world.
Science is dynamic, pattern-based knowledge.
“stories of our interactions with and within nature”
stories of our interactions with and within nature
• recognition• transformation• expression
•
• various ways to connect the dots• variety in our stories
Science
Multiple Intelligences(Howard Gardner)
our science stories … draw upon our “pattern smarts”
(Howard Gardner’s“multiple
intelligencestheory”)
our science stories … draw upon our “pattern smarts”
word smarts
math smarts
nature smarts
self smartspeople smarts
spirit smartsbody smarts
picture smartsmusic smarts
SANCTIONED PERSPECTIVES & INTELLIGENCES: who we are; where we are; where we were;
what we know, do and value
(Howard Gardner’s“multiple
intelligencestheory”)
LESSONS LEARNED
DO ... in aCREATIVE, GROW
FORWARD WAYview “SCIENCE”
inclusively
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
Two-Eyed Seeing learning to see with the
strengths of each & together
3.
1.
4.
2.
LESSONS LEARNED
DO ... in aCREATIVE, GROW
FORWARD WAY
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
4.
“See, in the Mi’kmaq world, in all Native worlds, you have to give recognition to everything: misdeeds, good deeds, past deeds, you know? Anything. You have to give that acknowledgement. Everything that you do, you have to acknowledge it.”
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object5.
“See, in the Mi’kmaq world, in all Native worlds, you have to give recognition to everything: misdeeds, good deeds, past deeds, you know? Anything. You have to give that acknowledgement. Everything that you do, you have to acknowledge it.”
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
Iwama et al. 2007; Gaspereau Press Limited
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object5.
ME
the “HEALING TENSE”
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
5.
actions, values, knowledges
the “HEALING TENSE”
Murdena Marshall, Elder, Mi’kmaq Nation
Together We Heal & Grow seeing & acknowledging my deeds
“together we heal & grow”
ME & YOUactions, values, knowledges
5.
LESSONS LEARNED
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object
DO ... in aCREATIVE, GROW
FORWARD WAYview “SCIENCE”
inclusively
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
3.
1.
5.
4.
2.
LANGUAGE
LESSONS LEARNED
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object
use VISUALS
DO ... in aCREATIVE, GROW
FORWARD WAYview “SCIENCE”
inclusively
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
3.
1.
6.5.
4.
2.
LANGUAGE
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object5. use VISUALS6.
4 BIG QUESTIONS
LANGUAGE
ontologies
epistemologies
methodologies
goals
LESSONS LEARNED
7. WEAVEback and forth between
our worldviews
7.
LESSONS LEARNED7 basic or fundamental
WEAVEback and forth between
our worldviews
put our values + actions + knowledges in front of
us ... like an object
use VISUALS
DO ... in aCREATIVE, GROW
FORWARD WAYview “SCIENCE”
inclusively3.
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5.
4.2.
ACKNOWLEDGE WE NEED
EACH OTHER ... co-learning journey
1.
7.
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
LEARNINGSPIRIT
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
use VISUALS
LESSONS LEARNEDbasic or fundamental
LESSONS LEARNEDbasic or fundamental
use VISUALS
First Nations Life Long Learning ModelAboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
Canadian Council on Learninghttp://www.ccl-cca.ca/ccl
(www.ccl-cca.ca/CCL)
Nourishingthe
LearningSpiritFirst Nations Life Long Learning Model
from:Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
Canadian Council on Learninghttp://www.ccl-cca.ca/ccl
Nourishingthe
LearningSpiritFirst Nations Life Long Learning Model
from:Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
Canadian Council on Learninghttp://www.ccl-cca.ca/ccl
, e.g. Mi’kmaq Traditional Knowledge
stories of our interactions with and within nature
Science isdynamic,
pattern-basedknowledge.
PATTERNS …• spirits within ecosystem-wide minds • ideas in brain-based minds
Science
stories of our interactions with and within nature
Science isdynamic,
pattern-basedknowledge.
PATTERNS …• spirits within ecosystem-wide minds • ideas in brain-based minds
Science
Sheridan, J. & Longboat, D.2006. The Haudenosauneeimagination and the ecologyof the sacred. Space andCulture 9(4): 365-381.
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
LEARNINGSPIRIT
SENSE of PLACE, EMERGENCE, and PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
LEARNINGSPIRIT
SENSE of PLACE, EMERGENCE, and PARTICIPATION
INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
LEARNINGSPIRIT
SENSE of PLACE, EMERGENCE, and PARTICIPATION
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INTRODUCTORYCONCEPTS
KNOWLEDGE GARDENING- LESSONS LEARNED -
LEARNINGSPIRIT
SENSE of PLACE, EMERGENCE, and PARTICIPATION
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southern Alberta / Blackfoot Nova Scotia / Mi’kmaq
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http://www.astronomy2009.ca/
http://www.integrativescience.cavideo of Mi’kmaq Night Sky Story (in Mi’kmaq, English, French) available at:
Let us reconnect with our Night Sky Stories.
Reconnections will be legacies for children
long after the close ofInternational Year of Astronomy.
Stories help us see the stars in new ways …
as telescopes help us see the stars in new ways.Sana Kavanagh Gemini Observatory
Knowledge is spirit.
It is a gift,passed on through many people.
We mustpass it on.
Nourishingthe
LearningSpirit
Knowledge is spirit.
It is a gift,passed on through many people.
We mustpass it on.
Nourishingthe
LearningSpirit
Knowledge is spirit.
It is a gift,passed on through many people.
We mustpass it on.
Nourishingthe
LearningSpirit
Knowledge is spirit.
It is a gift,passed on through many people.
We mustpass it on.
Nourishingthe
LearningSpirit
Importance of Ancestors, Elders, Knowledge Holders
Knowledge is spirit.
It is a gift,passed on through many people.
We mustpass it on.
FROM: Cindy Blackstockhttp://www.win-hec.org/docs/pdfs/cindy.pdf
(WIN-HEC Journal 2007)
Nourishingthe
LearningSpirit
Importance of Ancestors, Elders, Knowledge Holders
Importance of Ancestors, Elders, Knowledge Holders
Nourishingthe
LearningSpiritFirst Nations Life Long Learning Model
Importance of Ancestors, Elders, Knowledge Holders
from:Aboriginal Learning Knowledge Centre
Canadian Council on Learninghttp://www.ccl-cca.ca/ccl
Eskasoni First Nation Detachment
Thank you / Wela’lioq Mi’kmaq Elders
The support of various partners and funding agencies is gratefully acknowledged.