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Publication Date: 2020
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Environmental Education and Indigenous Knowledge: Towards the Connection of Local Wisdom with International Agendas in the Framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, v14 n1 p14-24 2020
This article delivers the results of an ethnographic educational research project carried out in an indigenous community in Veracruz State, Mexico, in which cultural practices were identified that produce Indigenous Knowledge aligned with the sustainability paradigm, and therefore with the SDGs. Empirical findings are shown regarding knowledge and values incorporated into the local world view that support behavior that promotes respect between people and protection toward the environment. I also present evidence of knowledge of the ecological dynamics of the ecosystems in which they live and work among the community's inhabitants. I argue for the importance of perpetuating these cultural practices and for the incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge in the implementation of educational interventions to meet the SDGs in indigenous settings.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Indigenous Knowledge, American Indians, Sustainability, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Community Development, Food, Oral Tradition, Ecology, American Indian Culture
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico
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