Global Indigenous Futures: Collaboration, Climate, and Knowledge in Motion Across the Americas

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 7:45 am - Gold 2

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Global Indigenous Futures: Collaboration, Climate, and Knowledge in Motion Across the Americas

Description (120 words)

This roundtable examines how Indigenous and Maroon communities across the Americas build educational and ecological futures through collaboration and knowledge exchange. Presenters draw from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and Texas to explore participatory, transnational, and biocultural approaches to learning and environmental stewardship. These studies engage social technologies, conservation education, and intergenerational memory as pedagogies that sustain both people and planet amid climate change. By centering Indigenous and community-based methodologies, participants reveal how collective education fosters resilience, adaptation, and sovereignty. Together, these papers envision Indigenous education as a global dialogue—where land, river, and relational practice are teachers guiding climate justice, collaboration, and cultural continuity across borders and generations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

Chair

• Kavya Sree Mariboyina, Little Priest Tribal College

Papers

• A Collaborative Vision for a Proposed Special Issue on Indigenous Education Initiatives in Texas - Marissa Munoz, University of Texas - San Antonio; Pablo Montes, Texas Christian University; Marleen Villanueva, Texas Christian University

• Socioenvironmental Crisis and Childhood in Mapuche Land: Children’s Maps and Narratives in Rural Education - María Isabel Reyes, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso; Rukmini Becerra-Lubies, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

• Title: Participatory Needs Assessment: Biocultural Knowledge and Conservation Education in the Colombian Amazon. - Carolina Simon-Pardo, University of Florida; Jose Zafiama, Casa del conocimiento Education Institution K-12; Julie Brown, University of Florida; Yue Li, University of Florida

• Transformations in Social Technologies of Ribeirinhos Communities in the Brazilian Amazon in the Face of Climate Change - Inny Accioly, Universidade Federal Fluminense; Arlete Gomes dos Santos, Universidade Federal Fluminense