JOS DE LIMA KAXINAWA, representative of the Organizacin de los Pueblos Indgenas de la Amazonia Colombiana, said that for the indigenous peoples of northern Brazil, education was not separated from culture. In her county, four Indian sacred sites had been destroyed in the name of construction and no compensation had been given. He hoped that those resources would increase the visibility of indigenous youth at the United Nations. Parents were left with no choice but to send their children to English-speaking public schools designed for Euro-American children. ALBERT DE TERVILLE, on behalf of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean Antilles, said it was important to understand the mix of indigenous peoples in the Caribbean. Indigenous peoples lived in very different environments and had retained their particular practices and beliefs. The challenge ahead was to improve the qualifications of teachers and to increase the number of educational textbooks in indigenous languages. JEBRA RAM MUCHAARY, speaking on behalf of St. Johns Mission, BIJNI and Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, Northeast Zone and Bodoland Childrens Home, said that education played a vital role in empowering indigenous communities. MARY SIMAT, representative of the Masai Women for Education and Economic Development, World Council of Churches and other organizations, said that in light of the endangered status of indigenous languages, the United Nations should sponsor an international year of indigenous languages for 2005. What measures was UNESCO taking to halt that illicit traffic? A representative of Belize, speaking on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), said CARICOM was committed to and respected the needs of indigenous children. In March of this year, an Institute for Indigenous Languages had been set up to benefit the cultural welfare of the nation. HASSAN IDBALKASSM, representative of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordination Committee (IPACC), said that the adoption of ILO Convention 169 on indigenous peoples was an important starting point for educational policy in all areas. How to integrate indigenous knowledge and Modern Education. They also stressed that multilingual education should occur at all educational levels, and that indigenous peoples be trained so that they could compete both nationally and internationally. To Carter Good (1959, p. 191), education is "the art of making available to each . He recommended that the United Nations support the existence and application of common laws in Indian tribes, and ask States to do the same. It had become evident that a more binding text than previous ones was necessary. Although those were difficult obstacles, they could be overcome, he said. Indigenous knowledge includes a local community's traditional technology; social, economic and philosophical learning grounded in spirituality skills, practices and ways of being in nature. In many African countries, there was an illiteracy rate of between 50 and 70 per cent, and an educational policy that did not respect cultural diversity. 8 CONTRAST BETWEEN INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND MODERN EDUCATION: 1. A Forum member asked whether UNESCO was working in close cooperation with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), and what strategies UNESCO intended to use in establishing a permanent and sustainable dialogue with the Permanent Forum. He also requested that the Forum seek approval for inclusion of a resident Caribbean expert to advise the Forum on Caribbean peoples issues. The privatization of water was unethical from an indigenous perspective. He encouraged partnerships with the Forum in various efforts UNESCO was involved in to preserve indigenous culture. Indigenous peoples have sustained their unique world-views and The Government needed to establish programmes in indigenous languages, and improve access to culturally appropriate education. He also urged UNESCO to step up its activities focused on indigenous children and languages. Languages were of great importance for everyone, but even more so for indigenous peoples, he said. More than half of his country was populated by indigenous peoples, he said, who had been subjected to outrageous discrimination for centuries. Ms. GRISBY said UNESCO was moving ahead gradually in supporting indigenous peoples to improve their education, but that must be done in coordination with member States. . A discussion of African Indigenous knowledge (IK) as an educational project does not take place in a vacuum but rather within the context of a history of colonialism, imperialism, neo-colonial, post-colonial, and anti-colonial discursive frameworks. What are the main characteristics of African indigenous education and their relevance to modern formal education? DANIEL DOMINGO LOPEZ, of the Proyecto de Desarrollo Santiago, Prodessa Plataforma MAYA, said the wealth of knowledge present in indigenous communities could prolong the life of the planet. Information should also be provided by regional organizations on how indigenous issues had been addressed in their respective mechanisms. Education was a human right, she said, as was the right to self-determination. For information media. "Engagement" is the second of six top priorities in Australia's most recent Indigenous education strategy to "close the gap" in schooling outcomes. Even when Ainu children entered public schools, they were at a much higher risk of dropping out due to the discrimination that they experienced. New Zealand recognized the importance and significance of Maori remains being returned to the Maori people and would be providing funding for that purpose. We need to know and understand what we don't know if we want to be truly educated. The United Nations agencies should persuade the Saint Lucian Government to end that policy. The Global Teaching and Learning Project would like to do more to work with the Forum to draft a set of guidelines to promote awareness of indigenous issues and to provide indigenous youth with a forum in cyberspace where they could discuss issues they considered important. This is directly relevant in today's higher education. While it was necessary to learn the languages and ways of colonizing countries, a lack of indigenous education would continue to set indigenous youth apart from their own cultures. All groups had the freedom to practise their religion, and participate in the political process. If the autonomy of indigenous groups was not respected, their cultures would not survive. The European Parliament wanted to strengthen the relationship with the Forum and with representatives of indigenous peoples, he continued. Indigenous peoples could not afford water; it was a necessity and not a commodity. Indigenous youth with language problems must be given special attention. The UNESCO was preparing a report that would cover case studies and best practices and discuss what educators around the world were doing. Without interference, nature sustains a balance of prey and predators, not only in the visible animal and insect kingdoms, but at a microbial level as well. In public education, the Ainu children had a lower rate of school attendance and that disparity became even more pronounced in higher education. It should also speed up its programme for the revival of indigenous languages, set up cultural villages with training programmes for youth, adopt an action plan on endangered languages, and make cultural studies more widely available. Information and information policy played an important role in that respect, and in many African countries television was completely closed to the languages of indigenous peoples. Furthermore, whole communities had been flooded as a result of dam building. Strengthening the connection of Indigenous communities and schools can alter their prior negative views of . JORGE GOMEZ, speaking on behalf of the Consejo Indio de Sudamerica (CISA), the Aymara Parliament and the Aymara Alliance, stressed the importance of water for the survival of indigenous cultures. From July until 31 December, the European Union would have an Italian presidency, led by President Berlusconi. With respect to spirituality, there was the proposed convention on intangible heritage, and UNESCO also had a programme on intercultural and spiritual heritage. The 21 million euros spent over the last three years on funding programmes to help indigenous peoples would grow in the future, he said, as the European Parliament wished to give more support to indigenous communities. Because of confusion about who they were, it must be made clear that the size of those groups was comparable to indigenous peoples of the United States and Canada jointly. She also pointed to the poverty of many indigenous areas, as well as the lack of attention indigenous peoples received in government policies. In addition, Canada was committed to the well-being of the indigenous youth population, he said. As a result of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement in 1976, the Cree School Board was created. The Japanese Government claimed that a policy to address those inequalities had existed since 1974, but even after 30 years of such measures, the disparity in education had not declined to any significant degree, primarily because the land rights and economic rights of the Ainu were not respected. CECIL LE FLEUR, of the Griqua National Conference of South Africa and the National Khoi-San Conference, recommended that the Forum urge the South African Government to review its land reform policy, so that indigenous people could lay claims to ancestral lands. As a member of the European Parliament, he wished to apologize for what had been done in previous centuries. Within the context of his country, promoting human rights meant promoting the human rights of all Indonesians, as all Indonesian peoples were indigenous. He stressed that cultural diversity was important today in the face of globalization, since culture played a vital role in sustainable development. It focuses not only on outstanding courses in Commerce, Science and Arts but also aims to promote critical thinking, life skills, value education, analytical skills, and decision-making skills for students. An attempt must also be made to ensure that there was no misinterpretation of indigenous culture and way of life. They had lost every square metre of their lands, their languages and traditions had been alienated, and they had been forced to adopt western European culture and speak the language of the colonizer. The effect of colonialism has made our people think of the word traditional as been primi. He stressed the importance of coordination and communication between governments and their constituents at the local level and said that the Government of Indonesia was committed to make autonomy and special autonomy a viable mechanism. Special attention should be given to young girls in the education sector. Indigenous-led education has provided the opportunity for Indigenous peoples to create and run their own school boards. In addition, the representatives of the Pacific Caucus, the Navajo Nation, Inuit Youth International, the Canadian Teachers Federation and Education International, the Bangladesh Adivasi Forum, the former Indigenous fellows of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Asia-Pacific Indigenous Youth Network, the Organizacin de los Pueblos Indgenas de la Amazonia Columbiana, the Asia Indigenous Caucus, the Consejo Internacional de Tratados Indios (CITI), St. Johns Mission and the Indian Confederation of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples, the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordination Committee (IPACC), the Boarding School Caucus, the Global Teaching and Learning Project, Consejo Nacional Indio de Venezuela, Projecto de Desarollo Santiago-Prodessa-Plataforma MAYA, the Indigenous Peoples Caucus on Sustainable Development, the Aldet Centre Saint Lucia, and the Regional Action Group for the Environment also spoke. Sometimes, indigenous knowledge is found to perform even better than modern science and technology (Rasid and Paul, 1987; Zhang et al., 2010; Basak et al., 2015; Dewan, 2015). The representatives of Guatemala, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada and New Zealand also spoke this morning. Indeed, education is the surest path to ensuring social continuity when it ought to be based on the real-life experiences of learners and what their immediate environment and social realities entail. Losing Indigenous Knowledge can be likened to losing our cultural identity; losing the inherent part of society that makes us "African.". Traditional Education, Modern Educaion and Post-Modern Education. The participation of indigenous peoples in decision-making regarding the design of curricula was still limited. That year would highlight the critical status of those languages and provide strategies for their revitalization. It should also encourage businesses to respect traditional common laws. Since 2014, LifeMosaic has been researching indigenous schools and intercultural bilingual education systems around Asia and Latin America. Not an official record. For example, indigenous communities in Bolivia that had used water for their survival had been forced to travel to Argentina to find work. In the implementation process of autonomy and special autonomy, he noted some obstacles, including human resources and institutional capacities, as well as policy development. However, with no funding to educate indigenous youth, that road would be a long one. A representative of the Parlamento Indgena America said colonizers had tried to make decisions for indigenous peoples in policies, religions and law. A number of indigenous communities in Brazil enjoyed education in their own languages. The Government was trying to find the economic resources so that every Saami child could learn the Saami culture, history and language. Conservator Kathryn Etre discusses the preservation techniques she and others use to protect a 7.6-metre Indigenous canoe . UNESCOs representative stressed that cultural diversity played a vital role in todays globalized world, and that culture was an essential element of sustainable development. They were considered as animals and people incapable of taking decisions. Moreover, the Government was considering publishing new textbooks to deal with indigenous issues. It was an indispensable asset to attain freedom and social justice. By learning more diverse histories in schools, students can become more informed and work toward Indigenous reconciliation, and be advocates for anti-racism, all in their own right and capacity. Governments should be encouraged to revise their educational policies and introduce primary education in the mother tongue of indigenous peoples. The UNESCO had recognized the need to preserve cultural identity, she continued. He urged all States to consider programmes to promote the advancement of the languages and cultures of indigenous peoples. An ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants (MPs) used by the local community has been carried out from January 5, 2014, to February 15, 2015, in Gozamin Wereda of East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia. British Journal of Education Vol.3, No.11, pp.32-39, November 2015 . Schooling was not widespread and there were millions of children in Africa that had no place in the schools. A growing body of scientific literature has described Indigenous ways of learning, in different cultures and countries. Drawing on findings from a three-year ethnographic analysis of school engagement issues in the north of Australia, this article situates engagement within the history of Indigenous education policy, followed by considerations of how many of the . The renewed interest in Indigenous knowledge has sparked a reconsideration of the universal value of Eurocentric knowledge, which requires a reformulation of the legitimate conditions for Indigenous education (McConaghy, 2000). EULYNDA BENALLY, of the Boarding School Caucus, said indigenous people must control education, and that adequate resources must be provided for indigenous education. In protecting the right to education, the international community should support indigenous peoples in seeking to preserve their heritage and identity, and ensure that they were not robbed of their identities and futures. Speakers also appealed to States and governments to adopt the draft declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. (For background information, see Press Release HR/4658, issued on. Globally, there has been an increased focus on the importance of Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) in research involving Indigenous peoples. It could then provide resources in support of that activity, as a way of assisting indigenous peoples in recovering what had been stolen from them over the last century. They had successfully blocked the recognition of indigenous and tribal languages at the national level, and indigenous and tribal students were failing at mainstream examinations, rendering the State slogan education for all very hollow. They were often the centres of communication with divine powers, and ceremonies were performed there that signified the revitalization of indigenous peoples. It also improves conservation, restoration, and the sustainable use of nature, which benefits society at large. The representative of Brazil said that his delegation had repeatedly confirmed its dedication to protecting the rights of indigenous peoples in Brazil. Mr. VACHERON said a legal instrument relating to tangible heritage would be presented to UNESCO in 2003. 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