Knowledge Translation (KT), a core priority in Canadian health research, policy, and practice for the past decade, has a long and rich tradition within Indigenous communities. In Indigenous knowledge systems the processes of "knowing" and "doing" are often intertwined and indistinguishable. However, dominant KT models in health science do not typically recognize Indigenous knowledge conceptuali...

Objective This paper explores the body of knowledge around Indigenous health research and aims to outline what roles are appropriate for non-Indigenous researchers within Indigenous health research in Australia. Methods A literature review was conducted using CINAHL, PubMed and Scopus in May 2015. The search terms were 'non-Indigenous researchers' AND 'Indigenous health research' and other comb...

The gap between young Indigenous and non-Indigenous children’s capability within mathematics is widely acknowledged. This gap is conjectured to exist at all levels of schooling, including pre-school, and widens as children mature. Most of these findings are based on research relating to children’s understanding of number and space. Little is known about what knowledge Indigenous students bring ...

The controversies surrounding intellectual property protection are most obvious when it comes to protecting indigenous knowledge. The firmly entrenched patenting laws in the developed world provide recognition and economic monopoly to individual inventors. Consequently, large and small companies have been able to appropriate the economic benefits from the technological knowledge protected throu...

Despite the increasing trend worldwide of integrating indigenous and scientific knowledge in natural resource management, there has been little stock-taking of literature on lessons learned from bringing indigenous knowledge and science together and the implications for maintaining and building social-ecological system resilience. In this paper we investigate: (1) themes, questions, or problems...

7 Indigenous and local knowledge system: a cumulative body of Indigenous peoples and local communities live in, manage and own vast areas often rich in biodiversity and critical for ecosystem services. Bridging indigenous and local knowledge systems with scientific knowledge systems is vital to enhance knowledge, practice, and ethics to move towards sustainability at multiple scales. We focus o...

This article examines the legal complexity concerning protection of traditional knowledge (TK) held by Indigenous Peoples. Despite significance this knowledge, particularly environmental conservation, biodiversity management, bioresources, and ecosystem management in connection with lands on which Peoples live, current frameworks fall short offering a comprehensive regime respectful key ethical...

review: this paper followed that intellectual system of imam khamenei as a thought leader in the field of knowledge-based economy indigenous theory, examine. refresh these ideas will help provide a better picture of this area have and be familiar with the main routes and lines the knowledge-based economy. in this articel resistance economy in this article as one of the major strategies of the c...