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
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
Creative Commons License
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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