Integrating indigenous knowledge systems: botanical gardens, museums, and zoos
General
- Undergraduate; 4th year, 3rd year, 2nd year
- 25 learners; teams of 5
- 12 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 1/1 project matches
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
- Any
- Science, Education, Environment, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Travel & tourism
Categories
Skills
Project timeline
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September 11, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Project Scope Meeting
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October 9, 2020Meeting with company to confirm methodology and launch needs
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October 16, 2020Methodology check
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October 16, 2020Meeting between students and professor for first steps status report
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November 12, 2020Trouble shooting meeting professor students (if needed)
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December 12, 2020Experience end
Timeline
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September 11, 2020Experience start
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September 18, 2020Project Scope Meeting
Meeting between students and institution to confirm: project scope, communication styles, and important dates.
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October 9, 2020Meeting with company to confirm methodology and launch needs
Professor meets with industry rep to confirm orientation
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October 16, 2020Methodology check
Meeting between students and professor to finalize approach
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October 16, 2020Meeting between students and professor for first steps status report
Status report on first steps of project implementation; identify potential problems and solutions to these problems
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November 12, 2020Trouble shooting meeting professor students (if needed)
Trouble shooting
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November 28, 2020Final meeting professor students
Going over any final challenges students may be facing.
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December 12, 2020Experience end
Overview
- Details
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Teams of 3 to 5 students will conduct virtual research at your institution to identify opportunities to enhance the presence of Indigenous knowledge systems and practices within your public engagement programs (e.g. thematic displays, interpretative materials, website design/presentation, curricula). Students will be allocated 12 hours to this project, and produce a report with proposed strategies to augment Indigenous visibility at your institution.
Project context: In view of the recent acknowledgment of the colonial roots of Canadian institutions, many are engaging with the development of measures that facilitate the integration of Indigenous Peoples' invaluable systems of knowledge and practice. Given this colonial legacy, natural science/history museums, botanical gardens, and zoos are called to rethink and possibly re-frame their public engagement and pedagogical orientations to include and/or enhance Indigenous content. This project offers timely resources toward these ends.
- Learner skills
- Digital marketing, Branding, Marketing strategy, Data analysis, Research
- Deliverables
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Final deliverables may include the following, depending on what is needed:
- A report on the current state of your Institution's engagement with Indigenous content as is pertains to current efforts in Canada to decolonize the material that educational institutions such as yours offer to general audiences;
- Suggestions on how to proceed to further enhance your programs of public engagement and/or curricula toward augmenting the visibility Indigenous Peoples' knowledge in relation to the unique specificities of your institution.
Project Examples
This project may include, but is not limited to:
- Analyze website content using tools learned in class to assess the presence of Indigenous content at your institution;
- Using tools learned in class, evaluate content that you wish to have analyzed through a decolonization lens;
- Evaluate the extent to which public engagement programs at your institution integrate Indigenous systems knowledge;
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Be available for a quick internet call (e.g. zoom, Skype) with the instructor to initiate your relationship and confirm your scope is an appropriate fit for the course.
Provide feedback on the deliverables by filling out a form prepared to these ends; option to attend student presentation
Provide a dedicated contact who is available to answer periodic emails or internet calls (e.g. zoom, Skype) for sharing material to analyze