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Valuing Native American Tribal Elders And Stories For Sustainability Study, Kristine Gritter Phd, Richard Scheuerman Phd, Cindy Strong Mls, Carrie Jim Schuster, Tracy Williams Edd
Valuing Native American Tribal Elders And Stories For Sustainability Study, Kristine Gritter Phd, Richard Scheuerman Phd, Cindy Strong Mls, Carrie Jim Schuster, Tracy Williams Edd
Cynthia Strong
"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Middle School Journal on January, 2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00940771.2016.1102601"
This article outlines a framework the authors have used to infuse sustainability study into humanities teaching at the middle school level. Native American tribal elders can act as co-teachers in such classrooms, and the place-based stories that shaped their views of the environment can serve as important classroom texts to investigate sustainable philosophies. Middle school students can learn to read with a sustainable lens and learn to use the narrative wisdom of tribal elders to read …