Article Title
Keywords
Naturalist education, Indigenous ways of knowing
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The purpose of this work is for you, the reader, to be sufficiently informed, entertained, and inspired that you find yourself reaching your own hands down into your soul, or your soil-filled gut, or the soles of your feet or your over-stuffed brain – wherever it is that you keep the meaning of your life — and press with your thumbs to make room for a new seed. Through story and poetry, I will use my own life as a site of inquiry to illuminate the educational structure and purpose of ideas around ecological identity. I see that dominant Western culture, driving policy and social discourse, lacks in its systemic behavior a sense of its ecological self (Lyons, 1993, Thomashow, 1995). The work expressed in this writing is an attempt to reverse some of this forgetting, for myself and for others. Thus my focus resides in understanding and critiquing the pedagogies that underlie Western culture and in practicing alternative forms of education in order to create positive, life-affirming change.
Genre/Form
personal narratives
Recommended Citation
Loviska, J. (2018). The Making of a Naturalist. Summit to Salish Sea: Inquiries and Essays, 3(1). Retrieved from https://cedar.wwu.edu/s2ss/vol3/iss1/11
Subjects - Topical (LCSH)
Environmental education; Ethnoscience; Indigenous peoples--Washington (State)--Bellingham; Identity
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Creative Commons License
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Geographic Coverage
Washington (State)
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Type
Text
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