Related online projects
Teaching from Country, Charles Darwin
University
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/inc/tfc/
This program sets up and evaluates distance education in reverse: the Yol?u (northeast Arnhemland Aboriginal) lecturers are in remote places and the students of Yol?u languages, culture and fine arts, are (mostly) on campus.
Contested Knowledges, Charles Darwin
University
http://learnline.cdu.edu.au/units/contestedknowledges/
Contested Knowledges is primarily concerned
with issues of knowledge production and its relationship to the
management of resources in northern Australia. The aim is to introduce
you to issues of knowledge and the philosophies relating to knowledge
production, and then to investigate the impact these ideas may have
on the way we approach the management of resources, particularly
in different cultural contexts..
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/index.htm
http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_c/uncofrm_c.htm
Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future is a multimedia
teacher education programme published by UNESCO. It contains 100
hours (divided into 25 modules) of professional development for
use in pre-service teacher courses as well as the in-service education
of teachers, curriculum developers, education policy makers, and
authors of educational materials.
Indigenous Knowledge
http://www.ens.gu.edu.au/ciree/LSE/mod5.htm
A teacher in-service module which was part of the project Learning
for a sustainable environment: a professional guide for teacher educators developed
by the UNESCO-Asia Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development & Griffith
University, Queensland.
The Alaska Native Knowledge Network
http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/
The Alaska Native Knowledge Network is designed to serve as a resource
for compiling and exchanging information related to Alaska Native
knowledge systems and ways of knowing. It has been established
to assist Native people, government agencies, educators and the
general public in gaining access to the knowledge base that Alaska
Natives have acquired through cumulative experience over millennia.
Indigenous Weather Network
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/
Seasonal weather calendars, developed over thousands of years by Indigenous communities, are displayed on this new Bureau of Meteorology Indigenous Weather Knowledge website.