How might Native science inform "informal science learning"?

Bryan Brayboy; Angelina E. Castagno

doi:10.1007/s11422-008-9125-x

How might Native science inform "informal science learning"?

Bryan Brayboy
, Angelina E. Castagno

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Abstract

This article examines the literature on Native science in order to address the presumed binaries between formal and informal science learning and between Western and Native science. We situate this discussion within a larger discussion of culturally responsive schooling for Indigenous youth and the importance of Indigenous epistemologies and contextualized knowledges within Indigenous communities.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	731-750
Number of pages	20
Journal	Cultural Studies of Science Education
Volume	3
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11422-008-9125-x
State	Published - Sep 2008

Keywords

Indigenous communities
Informal science learning
Native science

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Cultural Studies

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note = "Funding Information: This article stems from earlier conversations generated by the Informal science Learning commission sponsored by the U.S. National science Foundation (NSF). We were originally asked to write about {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}informal science learning.{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} What follows is a response to notions of what {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}informal learning{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} means and its connections to both {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Western{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} science and {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}Indigenous{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright}1 science. We are guided by an examination of the following questions: What is {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}informal{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} and how does this notion influence the everyday lived lives of Indigenous peoples?",

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doi = "10.1007/s11422-008-9125-x",

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