Moving Away from Being in Nature to Being in Relationship with Nature

• In Event: Poster Presentations

Session Submission Type: Poster Presentation

Summary

This hands-on session invites people to learn from a collaborative process among an indigenous scholar, third-grade teacher, and postdoc fellow. We centered indigenous ways of being in the classroom through a place-based approach to work towards diversifying our curriculum and creating a community for social and ecological sustainability.

Sub Unit

• Advancing Civic Engagement and Sustainable Communities

Presenters

• Nigora Erkaeva, Postdoctoral fellow

• James Barnes, Elementary teacher

Non-Attending Contributor

• Jared Ten Brink, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor