{"id":506,"date":"2025-11-19T15:13:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T23:13:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/placed-based-learning\/?p=506"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:17:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:17:45","slug":"indigenous-perspectives-in-biology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/2025\/11\/19\/indigenous-perspectives-in-biology\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous Perspectives in Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BIOL\/INDG 1492 &#8211; Lee Beavington and Anthony Fernandes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>PlantFolk Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Summary: <br>Students build a relationship with a specific plant, in a specific place, and engage in storytelling, reflection, and creative response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Intention<\/strong><br>The purpose of the PlantFolk project is to build relationship with a particular place, a particular<br>plant species, and other ecological interconnections. Through presence, reflection, and<br>creative process you will follow your curiosity in an inquiry-based learning approach.<br>Indigenous ways of understanding, including two-eyed seeing, will be guiding principles.<br>Sharing will occur through storytelling, reflective responses, creativity, and a decolonized<br>annotated bibliography.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image506_bec850-6d .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image506_bec850-6d size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/placed-based-learning\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-1024x679.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-1024x679.png 1024w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-768x509.png 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-1536x1018.png 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/files\/2025\/11\/BIOL-INDG-1492-Plant-Mind-Map-larger-font-2048x1358.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Experiential Outcomes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Explore, observe, and build a relationship with a local place in your community.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Identify and describe a native plant species, including traditional ecological knowledge.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engage in storytelling to share your experience of understanding. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply two-eyed seeing and other Indigenous ways of understanding. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Generate and answer inquiry-based questions inspired by your experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reflect upon your experience through multiple modalities, including creative expression.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a decolonized annotated bibliography (acknowledging your mentors\/teachers on this journey.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Materials<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Notebook and pen\/pencil<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Camera (or camera on phone)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Plant guides (available on Moodle)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note: I created this decolonized term project to center Indigenous ways of understanding, local plant wisdom, creative expression, and honouring our mentors. For space reasons only this excerpt is included. Contact <a href=\"mailto:lee.beavington@kpu.ca\">lee.beavington@kpu.ca<\/a> for the full version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOL\/INDG 1492: Students build a relationship with a specific plant, in a specific place, and engage in storytelling, reflection, and creative response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-indigenous-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":925,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/place-based-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}