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Cheryl Bartlett Professor of Biology Canada Research Chair In Integrative Science Integrative Science / Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn presentation for: Mi’kmawey Debert Elders’ Advisory Board Meeting 26 March 2004; Millbrook, NS Native Council of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Language Program Artist: Michael J. Martin

TEK Conference Eskasoni – 23 Oct 2003 · Mi’kmawey Debert Elders’ Advisory Board Meeting 26 March 2004; Millbrook, NS Native Council of Nova Scotia . Mi’kmaq Language Program

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Cheryl Bartlett Professor of Biology

Canada Research Chair In Integrative Science

Integrative Science / Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn

presentation for: Mi’kmawey Debert

Elders’ Advisory Board Meeting 26 March 2004; Millbrook, NS

Native Council of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Language Program

Artist: Michael J. Martin

Integrative Science

Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn

Native Council of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Language Program

Artist: Michael J. Martin

university science

Integrative Science

4 year degree program

What is … ?

artist Basma Kavanagh

Integrative Science

What else … ?

Artist Arlene (Dozay) Christmas

Integrative Science

What else … ?

What is “Integrative Science”?

“bringing knowledges together” Aboriginal – Western scientific

Toqwa’tu’kl Kjijitaqnn artist Basma

Kavanagh

Common Ground

divergences divergences

Si

Integrative Science: knowledges together

time line

awarded Oct 2002: Can Res Chair [Jan 2003]

approval Feb 2001: Integr Sci program; MPHEC

dreamt of for years: new approach to science education; Mi’kmaq individuals; e.g. 1960’s-1990’s

proposal developed mid-1990’s: UCCB

proposal submitted June 1997: UCCB

proposal approved June 1999: UCCB

proposal submitted June 1999: MPHEC

first students Fall 1999

first graduates Spring 2003

present

Integrative Science

present Artist Basma Kavanagh

Why?

Why?

spirituality … AK: yes … WSK: “no”

living knowledge … AK: yes … WSK education: more “book-based”

disciplinary … AK: no … WSK: yes

students … more familiar with computers than nature

Challenges?

WSK

AK

#1

Artist Arlene (Dozay) Christmas

How?

1

2

4 6

common ground 5

3

Artist BasmaKavanagh

PATTERN

Both are based on observations of the environment.

Mother Earth

Both result from the same intellectual process of creating order out of disorder.

common ground

PATTERN RECOGNITION

What?

PATTERN

Both are based on observations of the environment.

Mother Earth

Both result from the same intellectual process of creating order out of disorder.

environment

common ground

PATTERN RECOGNITION

What?

order / harmony

common ground PATTERN RECOGNITION

Mother Earth

PATTERNS

2-legged creature “human”

PATTERNS

Mother Earth

recognize / make / break express / use / transform

PATTERNS

Mother Earth

recognize / make / break express / use / transform

numbers language ------------------ music body (e.g. dance)

art other people self naturalist ------------------ spiritual

“expression smarts” for pattern PATTERN

recognize / make / break express / use / transform

expression tied to

cultural value

& use

natural PATTERN conceptual framework

ideal abstract

recognize / make / break express / use / transform

Mother Earth

artist Basma

Kavanagh

expression tied to cultural value & use

abstract pattern

PATTERN

Mother Earth

natural pattern

ideal pattern

mathematical pattern all my relations pattern

VALUE & USE …….. LIVING EARTH

respectful & participatory interconnectedness

masterful prediction & control

respectful &

participatory interconnectiveness

Aboriginal Knowledge

Medicine Wheel … based on layered pattern: natural <> ideal <> abstract

respectful & participatory interconnectiveness

PATTERN

S

S sun: natural pattern … 1 year

summer solstice (June 21) National Aboriginal Day

N N

winter solstice (December 21)

Medicine Wheel … based on layered pattern: natural <> ideal <> abstract

respectful & participatory interconnectiveness

PATTERN

south

east

north

west

natural ideal abstract ideal natural (layering)

ADD

ADD Medicine Wheel Representations - many layers -

PATTERN in the patterns of the animals … lessons for humans

spiritual

emotional

physical

cognitive

work by Dina Bernard, summer research student

masterful prediction

& control

Western Science Knowledge

Periodic Table … based on layered pattern: natural ideal abstract

masterful prediction & control

PATTERN

Si

PATTERN

in the patterns of the animals … lessons for humans

Mother Earth

common ground

PATTERN RECOGNITION

in the patterns of the animals … lessons for humans

example …

Mother Earth

divergence

VALUE - USE

respectful participation

masterful control

in the patterns of the animals … lessons for humans

example …

awareness

patterns

Integrative Science

artist Basma

Kavanagh

awareness

patterns

Integrative Science

metaphors

artist Basma

Kavanagh

MSIT courses 4 3 2 1

4 yr university science degree

PATTERN

Integrative Science

university science

Integrative Science

Artist Arlene (Dozay) Christmas

university science

Integrative Science

living knowledge

disciplinary fragmentation

CHALLENGES students … more familiar with computers than nature

spirituality

Artist Arlene (Dozay) Christmas

Artist Basma Kavanagh

PATTERN recognize / make / break express / use / transform

artist Basma

Kavanagh

PATTERN recognize / make / break express / use / transform

respectful recognition of, and participation within, the interconnectedness of

spirituality artist Basma

Kavanagh

spirituality

PATTERN - TRANSFORM - WEAVE inner – outer – inner – outer

expanding sense of wholeness … pattern within pattern

Artist Basma Kavanagh

expanding sense of wholeness … pattern within pattern

spirituality

image from: Lane, Bopp et al. 1984

The Sacred Tree

weave PATTERN … to create new PATTERN

expanding sense of wholeness … pattern within pattern

respectful & participatory interconnectedness

all my relations pattern

Artist Basma Kavanagh

“must become PATTERNable”

known

unknown

FEAR

Mother Earth … especially, patterns

of the animals

Mi’kmaq language moon months

= natural pattern

WEAVING

- relationship - respect - reverence - reciprocity - ritual - repetition - responsibility

Integrative Science

Artist Basma Kavanagh

J. Archibald, 2001, Can. J. Native Ed. 25(1):1-5

UN-WEAVING

- data collection - analysis - interpretation - prediction - control

Integrative Science

Artist Basma Kavanagh

physical

cognitive

spiritual

emotional

doing

feeling

knowing

loving valuing

STUDENTS EXAMINING BRAINS

Integrative Science … relevance:

Stewardship/Sustainability

Environmental issues

Ecology

“Sense of …”

Community

Resource management

Health

Education

Interpretation

Artist Basma Kavanagh

acknowledgements

Mi’kmaq communities

Artist Basma Kavanagh

Thank you Wela’lioq

Artist Basma Kavanagh