aboriginal science education

Approaches to Aboriginal education include approaches to Aboriginal culture. Teaching within this context necessitates knowledge of Aboriginal culture and of Aboriginal ways of knowing. Teachers with little or no knowledge of Aboriginal culture may have difficulty teaching Aboriginal content. However, many guiding principles may be successfully applied in teaching Aboriginal content. Although the approaches suggested here apply mainly to science classrooms, they may have a more universal application to many different subject classrooms. Generally, the main points briefly outlined here include the general concepts of: including Elder teachings, involving the whole community, infusing Aboriginal content into the subject, and including the use of native language in the classroom. Further to these main approaches, many attending sub concepts can be developed. These approaches are included in the subsections that are available through the links in the frame to the left.