Page 380 - Cultural Studies of Science Education

30 Considering the Consequences of Hybridity 355

of communities in which TEK is produced. Lest we be accused of romanticism, we
maintain that TEK, like many biological species, is everywhere endangered through
the dispossession of communities and lifestyles rooted in ancestral lands. For sci-
ence education, TEK is the embodiment of cultural and biological diversity – an
essential voice that can enable citizens to raise new questions, create different ways
of connecting information, and consider new perspectives on the world.

References

Aikenhead, G. S., & Jegede, O. J. (1999). Cross-cultural science education: A cognitive explanation
of a cultural phenomena. Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 36, 269–287.
Barnhardt, R., Tippins, D., & Brandt, C. (2008). Locations of possibilities in tertiary science
education: Responding to the voices of four Navajo women. Cultural Studies of Science
Education, 3, 703–730.
Champagne, D., & Abu-Saad, I. (2006). Introduction: Seeking common ground through educa-
tion. In I. Abu-Saad & D. Champange (Eds.), Indigenous education and empowerment:
International perspectives (pp. 1–11). Lanham: AltaMira Press.
Deloria, V., Jr. (1997). Red earth, white lies: Native Americans and the myth of scientific fact.
Golden: Fulcrum Publishing.
Ellen, R., & Harris, H. (2000). Introduction. In R. Ellen, P. Parkes, & A. Bicker (Eds.), Indigenous
environmental knowledge and its transformations: Critical anthropological perspectives
(pp. 1–33). Australia: Harwood Academic Publishers.
Hunn, E. (1989). Ethnoecology: The relevance of cognitive anthropology for human ecology. In
N. Freilich (Ed.), The relevance of culture (pp. 77–92). New York: Bergen & Garvey.
Kincheloe, J. L., Steinberg, S. R., & Tippins, D. J. (1999). The stigma of genius: Einstein,
consciousness, and education. New York: Peter Lang.
Williams, D. R. (2002). Social construction of arctic wilderness: Place meanings, value pluralism,
and globalization. Wilderness in the Circumpolar North: Searching for compatibility in eco-
logical, traditional and ecotourism values, USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-26
(pp. 120–132). Ogden, UT: US Department of Agriculture.