Affirming local knowledge in education programmes

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

1. Governments should affirm the rights of indigenous peoples, by legislation if necessary, to use their experience and understanding of sustainable development to play a part in education and training.

1. Reorienting education towards sustainable development
2. Affirming positive

1. Applying culture-based knowledge systems

1. Reducing discrimination against indigenous populations in education

1. Exclusion of indigenous peoples from natural resource management

1. Overeducation
2. Knowledge
3. Inexperience
4. Experience
5. Education

1. The Center for World Indigenous Studies
2. Indigenous Education and the Prospects for Cultural Survival
3. Opening Doors to the Future: Applying Local Knowledge in Curriculum Development
4. THE CHALLENGE OF INDIGENOUS EDUCATION: PRACTICE AND PERSPECTIVES
5. Alaska Native Knowledge Network
6. Importance of Culture and Education in Indigenous Nation-Building
7. INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND PEDAGOGY IN FIRST NATIONS EDUCATIONA LITERATURE REVIEW WITH RECOMMENDATIONS
8. Effective Teaching Practices for A boriginal and Torres Strait Islander Students: A R eview of the Literature
9. Toward Responsibility: Social Studies Education that Respects and Affirms Indigenous Peoples and Nations
10. Enshrining Indigenous Knowledge in the National Science Curriculum: Issues Arising from the Maori Case
11. Indigenous Knowledge and practices in Education in Latin America