ʻĀina-Based Inspirations in STEM: The Role of Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Shaping Curricular Adaptation

• In Event: Cultivating Equitable Education Systems: Reaffirming the Role of Indigenous Sciences

Abstract

ʻĀINA IS (Advancing Informal Native ʻĀina-based Inspirations in STEM) Project, an NSF AISL Innovations in Development project determines the impact of interweaving Native Hawaiian Indigenous ways of knowing connected to the ʻāina—a Native Hawaiian term referring to the land, sea, and air—with environmental science through a STEM Problem Based Learning Model. Drawing on Community-based Participatory Research and Indigenous Research Methods, we want to display how the development of a collaborative research design process will guide the research design. The main objective for this study is to increase environmental science literacy and Conservation-Related Behaviors among Native Hawaiian youth and their families, and to explore the effects of ʻĀina-based Visions on adapting a successful STEM PBL curricular.

Authors

• Nahid Nariman, Transformative Inquiry Design for Schools and Systems (TIDES)

• Jaymee Nanasi Davis, University of Hawaii

• David Reider, Education Design, Inc.