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It argues that dominant extraction-focused resource management fails to address climate change and ecosystem decline, and that Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) can guide healing through long-standing respect for the living Earth. 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Science education reform was in full swing, fueled by reports from the National Academies of Sciences (National Academies of Sciences et al., 2000, 2007) and the Carnegie Foundation on the Scholarship of Teaching (Boyer, 1990) that identified an alarming decline in education in the United States. Active, experiential learning was rightly recognized as abetter learning method (Arslantaş & Bavli, 2022), since—unsurprisingly—people develop cognitive and affective learning domains better under the natural conditions in  \nwhich the brain evolved. This is something people closely connected to the Earth have always known (Wildcat, 2023). As a result, exposure to the natural world has been reclaimed as healthy; exposure to nature improves mental health and academic success. In the Smithsonian-Mason Semesters, we made progress by transforming the curriculum and incorporating active learning around real-world problems with an interdisciplinary focus. We were aware of the urgency of climate change and the biodiversity crisis then, as we are now. Mason students began discovering ways to become knowledgeable about societies and, consequently, the Earth’s capacious problems, through immersion in the complex realities of living in the Anthropocene. However, we now face the reality that the modern approach of extraction-focused resource management  \n58 science education and civic engagement 16:2 fall 2024  \nthat is promoted by most societies is not likely soon to stem the tide of climate change, biodiversity loss, or deterioration of ecosystems. Today, we are quickly reaching a catastrophic tipping point that will detrimentally impact all life on Earth unless quickly mitigated (Fletcher et al., 2024). Again, revising how we function as a university and society has become necessary.  \nConsidering the magnitude of our global problems, understanding, respecting, and adopting the values and actions of knowledgeable societies with long-standing respect for the living Earth is long overdue. Indigenous people closely connected to the living Earth are keenly aware of the injuries inflicted upon fellow species and the land, water, and air by extractive resource management approaches used by most societies (Wildcat, 2023). Recognition of the wisdom of the Indigenous mind opens opportunities to understand how Traditional Ecological Knowledge can help us all understand, respect, and restore the Earth as informed through thousands of years of close interdependence with our diverse eco-relatives (Alfred, 2015; Cajete, 2000). Indigenous keepers continue to be important stewards of terrestrial land, exercising traditional rights over one-quarter of the earth’s surface and stewarding approximately 38% of all protected lands (Sze et al., 2022). They have generally done a much better job of living in concert with other life, terrestrial systems, forests, grasslands, and deserts, and taking care of the air, water, oceans, and soils as part of the living fabric of Earth than modern societies (Taiaiake, 2015). Indigenous communities worldwide exemplify the concept of Natural Law, where living respectfully with other life and natural systems is a cultural foundation (Wildcat, 2023). Respectfully, considering the magnitude of the current global crisis, societies should work to better understand and incorporate Natural Law into our education systems to help promote respect and healing. Our actions at Mason now incorporate these va","cbCaipl9FHiT2Krr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipl9FHiT2Krr","pdf",153030,"English","# Awakening Indigenuity at George Mason University\n## Immersive science education and biodiversity conservation\n## Limits of extraction-focused resource management\n## Natural Law and Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK)\n## Federal and state recognition supporting education reform","[{\"question\":\"What educational approach does the Smithsonian–Mason partnership emphasize?\",\"answer\":\"It emphasizes a residential, immersive approach to education focused on biodiversity conservation, with active, experiential learning around real-world interdisciplinary problems.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the text argue that current societal approaches are insufficient?\",\"answer\":\"It states that modern extraction-focused resource management promoted by most societies is unlikely to stem climate change, biodiversity loss, or ecosystem deterioration in time to avoid catastrophic impacts.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) contribute according to the document?\",\"answer\":\"The document presents Indigenous wisdom as a way to understand, respect, and restore the Earth, grounded in thousands of years of close interdependence with local eco-relatives.\"}]","Awakening Indigenuity at George Mason University - fall 2024 | PDF",1792037979]