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by Glen S. Aikenhead (Author)
This book is about an alternative path to mitigating the climate-change crisis. It explains why today's status-quo approaches are not working, mainly due to limitations in science itself and to individual citizens' prevailing mindset: "I am the centre of the universe."
The two main features of this alternative pathway are holistic reasoning and sustainability. These immediately lead one to the conclusion that Indigenous people who follow their culture are a major part of avoiding a serious tipping point in the future. The book calls for an organized collaboration between working groups of Indigenous and Eurocentric non-Indigenous workers.
The book describes how science interacts with society and how it operates within its own ranks. Both knowledge clusters help inform readers making a decision on to trust or not to trust information they hear from a scientist, or on social media.
Author Biography
Glen S. Aikenhead has a B.Sc. (Hons) in chemistry and physics from the University of Calgary (1965), and an MA from Harvard (1966). He enjoyed three years of teaching high school science and math before embarking on a Doctorate of Science Education at Harvard (1972), during which he established his life-long research program: humanistic school science for everyday life, defined by students' real-life experiences. He took up a full professorship at Saskatchewan's College of Education in 1980. About a decade later, he made a mid-course correction to his research program by giving increased emphasis to the unique cultural challenges faced by Indigenous students in Western science and math classes. Guided by Elders, he learned to interpret the world from the perspective of Indigenous wisdom. Professor Aikenhead is the author of 10 academic books, and has served as visiting professor at institutions around the world, including Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Kristianstad University, Sweden; the University of Lisbon, Portugal; Providence University, Taiwan; and the University of Waikato, Aotearoa New Zealand.
