Engaging Indigenous Urban Youth in Environmental Learning: The Importance of Place Revisited

This paper describes the evolution of an environmental learning program for Indigenous, urban youth called Bridging the Gap. A critical pedagogy of place provides a theoretical framework to engage in practitioner-reflection, exploring the decisions made while revising the original program to make it...

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Published inCanadian journal of environmental education Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 59 - 73
Main Author Swayze, Natalie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Lakehead University and Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication 2009
Subjects
Action Research
Critical Theory
Culturally Relevant Education
Education
Environmental Education
Indigenous Populations
Reflective Teaching
Research Methodology
Teacher Researchers
Teaching Methods
Urban Youth
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Summary:This paper describes the evolution of an environmental learning program for Indigenous, urban youth called Bridging the Gap. A critical pedagogy of place provides a theoretical framework to engage in practitioner-reflection, exploring the decisions made while revising the original program to make it both culturally and ecologically relevant. Using an action research methodology, the practitioner-researcher resolves to continue to seek resolution to relevant aspects of marginalization in attempt to facilitate reinhabitation for Bridging the Gap learners while emphasizing the program's place-specific social, economic, and ecological situatedness. (Contains 2 notes.)
ISSN:1205-5352