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Title
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The Story of 13 Moons: Developing an Environmental Health and Sustainability Curriculum Founded on Indigenous First Foods and Technologies
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Description
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Journal article about the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community’s development of an informal environmental health and sustainability curriculum for teaching science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics with a basis in Swinomish beliefs and practices. The curriculum focuses on free-choice learning and increasing awareness.
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Creator
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Jamie Donatuto
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Larry Campbell
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Joyce K. LeCompte
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Diana Rohlman
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Sonni Tadlock
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Subject
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environmental awareness
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environmental sustainability
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free-choice learning
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indigenous
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informal learning
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Abstract
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The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community developed an informal environmental health and sustainability (EHS) curriculum based on Swinomish beliefs and practices. EHS programs developed and implemented by Indigenous communities are extremely scarce. The mainstream view of EHS does not do justice to how many Indigenous peoples define EHS as reciprocal relationships between people, nonhuman beings, homelands, air, and waters. The curriculum provides an alternative informal educational platform for teaching science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics (STEAM) using identification, harvest, and preparation activities of First Foods and medicines that are important to community members in order to increase awareness and understanding of local EHS issues. The curriculum, called 13 Moons, is founded on a set of guiding principles which may be useful for other Indigenous communities seeking to develop their own curricula.
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volume
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12
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issue
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21
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Date
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2020/1
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Language
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en
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doi
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10.3390/su12218913
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issn
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2071-1050
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short title
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The Story of 13 Moons
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Rights
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Publisher
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Environmental Education for Sustainability