Here is a chapter on scientific language and the language of animacy, from Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer's brilliant book, Braiding Sweetgrass . (I highly recommend this book as a meditation on the interrelationships between scientific knowledge and Indigenous ways of knowing and being).
Kimmerer is a professor of Environmental and Forest Biology at the State University of New York, and is of European and Anishinaabe Indigenous heritage. Her work brings together two traditions that she greatly respects and loves: the scientific tradition and the tradition of Indigenous ways of knowing.
She has a new book coming out, The Serviceberry, about gifts and a gift economy, and she’ll be giving a talk at the Chan Centre at UBC!
In your blog post, please discuss:
• Your own take on scientific/ mathematical terminology in the classroom
• What this article brings you in terms of ways to Indigenize your own classroom and curriculum?
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