Designing programs that value traditional ecological knowledge

October 23, 2014 | Public Programs

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

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University of Washington

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Resource Type: Research Brief

Discipline: Ecology, forestry, and agriculture | Education and learning science

Audience: General Public | Educators/Teachers | Museum/ISE Professionals

Environment Type: Public Programs | Afterschool Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs

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