Alienation and Integration

Environmental Education and American First Nations
  • Joseph Sheridan
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Abstract

North American First Nations have always had a place in environmental educational thought, even though that place has often been to stand as a symbol of some aspect of conservation. The range of that appeal nowadays is fairly wide. There is a literature that is foundational to the definition of environment. Some of it critiques scientific approaches to environmental thought, based on epistemological premises said to be those of First Nations (Geer 1992; Kesson 1992). A complementary discussion offers First Nations perspectives as a more nearly valid way to inform scientific inquiry about the environment (Cordero 1992; Comell1990; Kaira 1974; Russell 1984). Articulation of aspects of First Nations cosmology are sometimes offered as contributions to environmental education (e.g., Kaus and Gomez-Pompa 1992; Roller 1984; Russell 1991).

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Nations People Environmental Education Environmental Ethic Nature Study Conservation Education 
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  • Joseph Sheridan
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  1. 1.York UniversityCanada

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