In this section I hope to find, read, and discuss some references relating specifically to science education and Native American student populations, as well as closely related topics. I was able to obtain the book Igniting the Sparkle... through InterLibrary Loan and have begun to read it.
The Science & Education article deals with two more unusual and interesting curricula: the Imagining Nature Project at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria, Australia and the Native Eyes Project at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Both projects incorporate innovative and unique strategies to teach science to non-science majors of diverse cultural origin.
Bibliographic Note:
Gregory A. Cajete, Igniting the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Model, (North Carolina, Kivaki Press, 1999). This book describes a culturally responsive, wholistic, Native American science curriculum the author has been teaching for 25 years.
David Wade Chambers, "Seeing a World in a Grain of Sand: Science Teaching in a Multicultural Context", Science & Education 8:633-644, 1999.
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