Learning Worldviews
The Learning Worldviews module presents material that could be used in a semester-long course or as themed materials in a broad range of courses that cover Indigenous history and resilience, history of science, legal responsibility and compliance, NAGPRA, or ethics. They focus on helping learners recognize their own knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs and appreciate those of others. One crucial learning outcome for our group’s materials is that students come to understand Native American and Western scientific logics that underlie various worldviews, while recognizing that these are not necessarily incompatible, that Indigenous scientists contribute to global science, and that non-Indigenous scientists do not all think in the same ways. The modules may be used in any order according to instructor preference. We start with covering understandings of respect, because respect should be the foundation for repatriation.