T231 Enhancing the Geosciences by Empowering Indigenous and Latinx Students II

Tuesday, 24 September 2019
1:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room 106BC, West Building

DÍI HLANGGWÁAY TLA K_ÍIYA ‘LA ÁAYGAAGANG: FOSTERING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION PRACTICES IN K-12 EDUCATION BY INCORPORATING TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN STEM EDUCATION AND CURRICULUM

Paper number: T231-3
Program: Technical Sessions
Time: 1:50 PM – 2:10 PM

Authors

Abstract

The Hydaburg Geoscience Education Program is a collaborative partnership between the Hydaburg School District, Hydaburg Tribe, and multiple academic institutions to develop a series of culturally-centered K-12 geoscience curriculum lessons and short films for K-12 teachers to use to teach science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The lessons and films aim to 1) teach non-Haida teachers about Haida culture (in order for them to inclusively teach STEM), 2) provide teachers with useable STEM curriculum materials steeped in Haida worldviews and traditions (i.e., Traditional Knowledge (TK)), and 3) to provide curriculum to students that demonstrates the importance and relevance of Haida TK. STEM instruction through a TK lens provides an opportunity to perpetuate and preserve Haida ways of knowing, increasing student self-efficacy as a geoscientist. The ultimate goal is to create a model that can be taken to scale and used for all educational and research colleagues engaging with, and in, Native communities.

Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. Vol. 51, No. 5

doi: 10.1130/abs/2019AM-335659

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