ERIC Number: ED664837
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Apr-14
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Using Settler Moves to Innocence to Interrogate the Environmental Science Curriculum
Dinorah-Marie Hudson
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Philadelphia, PA, Apr 11-14, 2024)
This article presents an analysis of environmental science curriculum materials to interrogate and reveal settler moves to innocence (Tuck & Yang, 2012) by analyzing the language used to describe concepts and events that invisiblize Indigenous knowledge and hide settler colonial logics. Using Decolonization is not a metaphor (Tuck & Yang, 2012) and "apart from" ontologies (Medin & Bang, 2014), the author (re)stories content presented in environmental science materials to center Indigenous knowledge and Land education practices. The utility of (re)storying content to center Indigenous Land education practices helps dismantle settler colonial perspectives and gives educators tools that can be used to implement Land-based pedagogies.
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Curriculum, Science Education, Instructional Materials, Language Usage, Content Analysis, Decolonization, Indigenous Knowledge, Scientific Concepts, Colonialism, Hidden Curriculum, Land Settlement, Language Role, Textbook Content, Public Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Land Use, Units of Study, Social Systems, Social Bias
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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