Enriching Environmental Education Through Two-eyed Seeing

SFU education professor and UNESCO Chair in Bio-cultural Diversity and Education David Zandvliet uses a Two-Eyed Seeing approach in his teaching and research, a concept developed by Mi’kmaq Elder Albert Marshall. Zandvliet is also a steering committee member at the David Lam Centre. 

His recent paper, A Two-Eyed Seeing Teaching and Learning Framework for Science Education, with Connie Cirkony and John Kenny from the University of Tasmania outlines ways to integrate the strengths of Indigenous ways of knowing with the strengths of Western science into a pedagogy that benefits students, communities and the planet.

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