Books by David Wade Chambers
Papers by David Wade Chambers
Cross-Cultural Knowledge Exchange and the Politics of Design, 2014
This paper was delivered at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education held in 2005 in ... more This paper was delivered at the World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education held in 2005 in Aotearoa (New Zealand). It describes a new kind of undergraduate teaching program in Indigenous Liberal Studies at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This text book was published in 1984 by Deakin University Press. It offers an account of Chinese... more This text book was published in 1984 by Deakin University Press. It offers an account of Chinese science policy during the Cultural Revolution. The introductory essay was written by David Wade Chambers arising out of his experiences during a six month sojourn in the PRC in 1974 and 1975. The book includes extracts from 30 scholarly sources. It is handsomely illustrated by selections from the author's collection of fine papercuts, featuring a number on science and technology related themes.
This paper explores in brief the many ways in which knowledge was preserved and transmitted in Na... more This paper explores in brief the many ways in which knowledge was preserved and transmitted in Native American cultures across the Americas.
Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 1996
Humboldt as Scientist and Observer The sixteenth century Spanish conquest of great reaches of the... more Humboldt as Scientist and Observer The sixteenth century Spanish conquest of great reaches of the Americas brought New Spain and its peoples vividly into European consciousness yielding spectacular images and abiding myths. In a Europe hungry for knowledge, such fictions, in tum, produced new ways of thinking about the world and about nature and culture. Then, gradually over the next two hundred years, Mexico disappeared into the somnolence of tightly regulated colonial existence, seemingly of little further cultural or intellectual interest to Europeans. It had become, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, a land 'almost locked up from the knowledge of man'. Although scientific voyagers traversed the globe throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in search of natural artifacts to stock the botanical gardens and museums of Europe, none of these travellers stimulated European imagination (or indeed European greed) so intensely as did Columbus before them or Humboldt after.
In the modern world we find a really remarkable array of highly varied approaches to teaching and... more In the modern world we find a really remarkable array of highly varied approaches to teaching and learning, and perhaps we shouldn't be surprised that many of the most exciting of these approaches are found in the indigenous context. I think the WIPCE conference this year is all the proof we need of the truth of that proposition. As indigenous educators most of us wish honor the knowledge traditions to which we are bound, while also respecting the constraints of the academic disciplines in which we have been trained. This means that we are indeed challenged, in ways that mainstream educators are not, to develop teaching content, protocols and techniques that can provide for this complex pattern of cross-cultural allegiances.
Isis, 1965
JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, a... more JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected].
Science & Education, 1999
This paper briefly describes two unusual curriculum plans: the Imagining Nature Project at Deakin... more This paper briefly describes two unusual curriculum plans: the Imagining Nature Project at Deakin University in Geelong, Victoria, Australia and the Native Eyes Project at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico Among other things, both projects entail the teaching of science and technology studies to non-science majors of highly diverse cultural origin. Both projects also incorporate innovative strategies designed to make science and technology more credible and relevant to indigenous people.
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Books by David Wade Chambers
Papers by David Wade Chambers