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Bottom Up and Top Down: Analysis of Participatory Processes for Sustainability Indicator Identification as a Pathway to Community Empowerment and Sustainable Environmental Management

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evan D. G. Fraser
Andrew J. Dougill
Warren E. Mabee
Mark Reed
Patrick McAlpine
Journal of Environmental Management, vol. 78, no. 2, January 2006, pp. 114-127
Description
Paper assesses the participatory process of three different case studies and comes to three common conclusions, one being that community empowerment is vital.
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Child Rearing Practices of the San Communities in Botswana: Potential Lessons for Educators

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Annah Anikie Molosiwa
Dipotso Galeforolwe
AlterNative, vol. 14, no. 2, June 2018, pp. 130-137
Description
Using narratives, focus group discussions and interviews this study gathers and analyzes qualitative data from 15 Basarwa (San) participants about how they transmit their cultural practices to their children. Results show the San want education that is inclusive of their cultural practices and language; they would like to see San teachers in the schools.
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Editorial-Indigenous Pedagogies: Resurgence and Restoration

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Tracy L. Friedel
Jo-Ann Archibald
Ramona Big Head
Georgina Martin
Marissa Muñoz
Canadian Journal of Native Education, vol. 35, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1-6, 221, 223-224
Description
Editorial introduction to this issue on decolonizing systems of teaching and learning, educational spaces and the enactment of culture, and pedagogies of wholeness.
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Education and the San of Southern Africa

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Jennifer Hays
Amanda Siegrühn
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Indigenous Peoples and Education, 2005, pp. 26-34
Description
Discusses the right of San communities to access formal education in Nambia, Botswana and South Africa. To access this article, scroll down to page 27.
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Enabling Women to Live the Life They Choose: Women’s Work

Articles » General
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 1, The Electronic Drum: Community Radios Role in Indigenous Language Revitalization, March 2013, p. [?]
Description
Discusses the benefits of fair trade crafts made by the San Bushmen women of southern Africa.
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Ethnocultural Identities and School Retention

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Nkobi Owen Pansiri
AlterNative, vol. 8, no. 3, 2012, pp. 239-252
Description
States nation-state policies encourage stereotypes and prejudices which affect student self image in Indigenous minorities.
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Indigenous Peoples, Globalization, and Education: Making Connections

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Verna St. Denis
Alberta Journal of Educational Research, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 36-48
Description
Looks at research conducted among Indigenous people in Botswana, Africa to build on concept of 'globalization from below' or human community.
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Learning & Knowing in Indigenous Societies Today

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Marie-Claude Mattéi Muller
Margaret Florey
Stanford Zent
Jorge Ishizawa
Grimaldo Rengifo ... [et al.]
Description
Papers discuss loss of language and Indigenous knowledge and ways of learning in various countries.
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Mother Tongue: Old Debates and New Initiatives in San Education

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maitseo Bolaane
Sidsel Saugestad
Indigenous Affairs, no. 1, Africa and the New Millennium Development Goals, 2006, pp. 46-54
Description
Citing examples from research done in Botswana, article discusses several factors effecting education: spatial distance, cultural distance and a failure to accommodate local language and culture. To access this article, scroll down to page 46.
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Second Chance Education in Botswana: Implementing a Holistic Approach Based on the Botho Philosophy to Empower Marginalized Youth in the Kweneng District

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kelone Khudu-Peterson
Attwell Mamvuto
AlterNative, vol. 12, no. 1, 2016, pp. 57-70
Description
Discusses the establishment of Springboard Humanism (SBH) organization and project aimed at helping Indigenous BaSarwa and BaKgalagari women pass the Junior Certification Examination.
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Toward Sustainable Self-Determination: Rethinking the Contemporary Indigenous-Rights Discourse

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jeff Corntassel
Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, vol. 33, no. 1, January-March 2008, p. 105–132
Description
Looks at existing research on rights, political mobilization, and ecosystems; and identifies alternatives to the existing rights discourse that can facilitate a meaningful and sustainable self-determination process for Indigenous peoples around the world.
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Yarning About Yarning as a Legitimate Method in Indigenous Research

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dawn Bessarab
Bridget Ng'andu
International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, 2010, pp. 37-50
Description
Comments on the usefulness of applying yarning as a research method for the gathering of data in Indigenous research using results from an Indigenous group in Australia and and in Botswana.
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