Indigenous philosophy in environmental education

Authors

Anne Poelina
Yin Paradies
Sandra Wooltorton, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Laurie Guimond
Libby Jackson-Barrett, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Mindy Blaise, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Title

Australian Journal of Environmental Education

Volume

39

Issue

3

First Page

269

Last Page

278

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

School

Centre for People, Place and Planet / Kurongkurl Katitjin / School of Education / School of Science

Comments

Poelina, A., Paradies, Y., Wooltorton, S., Guimond, L., Jackson-Barrett, L., & Blaise, M. (2023). Indigenous philosophy in environmental education [Editorial]. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 39(Special Issue 3), 269-278. https://doi.org/10.1017/aee.2023.28

Abstract

The editorial group acknowledges the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge keepers and their past and continuous relationships with place, on every continent on earth where humans have lived for aeons. Indigenous wisdom is their life-giving gift to communities everywhere for planetary futures. It is precious, having integrity and an ethic of responsibility and care. Indigenous wisdom as environmental education is the oldest education, being tens of thousands of years of continuity before waves of apocalyptic colonial violence during the last few centuries interrupted lifeways and language-embedded knowledge systems, some forever gone . . .

DOI

10.1017/aee.2023.28

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