Introduction
What is the name of the author(s)?
Teresa Newberry and Octaviana V. Trujillo
What does transdisciplinary curriculum do?
Serves to legitimize the knowledge of students.
How many tribal colleges serve more than 20,000 Native American undergraduate students in the US?
38
What specific US state has its tribal communities feeling the most impact?
Alaska
Complete the quote:
"life is not scientific, social scientific, mathematical, or even religious: life is a unity, and the foundation for learning must be the __________________ of being a human being."
-Vine Deloria 1999
"unified experience"
Which curriculum can be disruptive to a students world-view?
Science curriculum.
Why did the tribal college movement start?
As a response to the need for self-determination and tribal sovereignty...
What are the motivations of the curriculum?
address issues of climate justice, legitimizing traditional knowledge, and encouraging interdisciplinary dialogue
What is transdisciplinary education?
Learning across concepts holistically rather than learning isolated subjects.
What is collateral learning?
how students resolve two or more schemata simultaneously held in long-term memory.
What are tribal college's dual mission?
Preserve tribal culture; provide students a high-quality post-secondary education while serving the needs of its community and tribal members.
What does the model incorporate?
Input from Elders, Scientists, And Policy Makers about solutions for meeting future water needs.
What does "True Learning" emphasize?
Technical knowledge as well as relationships with both human and natural communities.
What do transdisciplinary approaches that include TEK provide?
Mechanisms for the inclusion of value systems.
Who are the "Desert people"?
The people of Tohono O'odham.
What cite can you find the curriculum?
CAMEL
What are one of the strengths of TEK?
"it assumes that local environments and climate are continuously changing in a non-equilibrium fashion"
What is engaged civic learning?
An approach to learning that is problem-centered.
What is taught in the Global Change Biology Course at TOCC?
Climate change from an indigenous perspective.
What do the students learn about current and predicted climate change patterns?
Drought, increased temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and extreme weather events.