Abstract
Board Chair, Liz McKinley has written an inspiring editorial that reflects on her journey as a Maori science educator working across all levels in a career spanning over 40 years. Liz also touches on one of the long running controversies that seems unavoidable in this space, that of the value and credibility of allowing non-western cultural knowledge into science curricula and pedagogy. The program of the second biennial Turtle Island Indigenous Science Conference, held at the University of Regina in Canada is available. This issue also contains three items written specifically for us. The first is a summary of the Queensland Education Department’s Solid Pathways program by Dr Hind Hegazy, which see online STEM instruction provided to First Nations primary level students. The second is an item provided by another staff member of Queensland Education, being Goodna State School’s science teacher Gerard Salmon. He provides opportunities for Indigenous girls to excel at science through an Indigenous Girls' Technology and Drone Club. The third is provided by Dr Nick Ruddell of Charles Sturt University. Along with colleague Holly Randell-Moon, they have summarised a recently published book chapter titled Country as teacher in the development of cross-cultural Indigenous science environmental education.
Recommended Citation
(2024)
"Indigenous Science Network Bulletin - November 2024,"
Indigenous Science Network: Vol. 25:
Iss.
2, Article 1.
Available at:
https://research.acer.edu.au/isn/vol25/iss2/1
Publisher
Indigenous Science Network
ISSN
1449-2091