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Integrating Indigenous and Western Education in Science Curricula

Relationships at Play

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Authors:
  1. Eun-Ji Amy Kim

    1. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

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  • Offers insights into the process of doing research that involves both Indigenous and Western frameworks
  • Includes the perspectives of multiple stakeholders involved in curriculum development
  • Adopts a narrative and relational style that conveys the author’s personal experience and positionality

Part of the book series: Curriculum Studies Worldwide (CSWW)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Researcher Preparation: Connecting Past, Present, and Future

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 1-32

  3. Relationship Between Indigenous Knowledges and Western Modern Science

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 33-63

  4. Embracing the Uncertainty

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 65-113

  5. Regressive Moment: Historical Contexts

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 115-153

  6. What, Why, and How?

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 155-176

  7. Analytical Moment: Curriculum Analysis

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 177-223

  8. Balance and Harmony

    • Eun-Ji Amy Kim
    Pages 225-252

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 253-270
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About this book

This book explores diverse relationships at play in integrating Indigenous knowledges and Western Science in curricula. The readers will unravel ways in which history, policy, and relationships with local Indigenous communities play a role in developing and implementing ‘cross-cultural’ science curricula in schools.

Incorporating stories from multiple individuals involved in curriculum development and implementation – university professors, a ministry consultant, a First Nations and Métis Education coordinator, and most importantly, classroom teachers – this book offers suggestions for education stakeholders at different levels.

Focusing on the importance of understanding ‘relationships at play’, this book also shows the author’s journey in re/search, wherein she grapples with both Indigenous and Western research frameworks. Featuring a candid account of this journey from research preparation to writing, this book also offers insights on therelationships at play in doing re/search that respects Indigenous ways of coming to know. 



Reviews

“Eun-Ji Amy Kim eloquently braids story and scholarly inquiry into a richly layered and engaging must-read for science educators and beyond. Through a decolonizing and discursive analysis of K-12 science curricula, policies, and pedagogical attempts at infusing Indigenous knowledge, she poses a Dancing Amoeba Model for engaging Indigenous knowledge and science – learned from the wisdom of Indigenous Elders and scholars – as an innovative ethical relational science curriculum.”

—  Marie Battiste, Professor Emerita, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Authors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Eun-Ji Amy Kim

About the author

Dr Eun-Ji Amy Kim (she/her) is Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a former high school teacher and an education consultant for diverse Indigenous communities across Canada.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Integrating Indigenous and Western Education in Science Curricula

  • Book Subtitle: Relationships at Play

  • Authors: Eun-Ji Amy Kim

  • Series Title: Curriculum Studies Worldwide

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88949-4

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88948-7Published: 05 January 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88951-7Published: 06 January 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88949-4Published: 04 January 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2731-6386

  • Series E-ISSN: 2731-6394

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIII, 270

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Curriculum Studies, Science Education, Knowledge - Discourse, Research Methods in Education

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