- Title
- Working with critical realist perspective and tools at the interface of indigenous and scientific knowledge in a science curriculum setting
- Creator
- O'Donoghue, Rob B
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2015
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437081
- Identifier
- vital:73329
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781315660899
- Identifier
- https://www.routledge.com/Critical-Realism-Environmental-Learning-and-Social-Ecological-Change/Price-Lotz-Sistka/p/book/9780367597689
- Description
- This chapter uses basic and dialectical critical realism to exam-ine and review prevailing dispositions on indigenous and insti-tutional knowledge (Western science) in environmental educa-tion processes. It examines some of the macro social pro-cesses that have inscribed assumptions of incommensurable differences between the two kinds of knowledge. It notes that whereas a previous hegemony of positivism would have re-sulted in the dismissal of much indigenous knowledge as mere superstition, contemporary intellectual perspectives (poststruc-tural and hermeneutical) have shaped a proliferation of worldview modelling that has resulted in a macro-level exempli-fying of indigenous knowledge as different and opposing Western science. Here, the lack of adequate mediating tools has given rise to a problematic inscription of assumed differ-ence between the knowledge of indigenous peoples and that of scientific institutions. Furthermore, despite an overt emancipatory intention in worldview discourses, the marginalization of indigenous peoples and knowledge remains.
- Format
- 19 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Language
- English
- Relation
- O'Donoghue, R., 2015. Working with critical realist perspective and tools at the interface of indigenous and scientific knowledge in a science curriculum setting. In Critical realism, environmental learning and social-ecological change (pp. 159-177). Routledge
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