Gregory Cajete
Biographic Data
| ID | 3997212 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregory Cajete |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Cajete |
| SIGNATURE | CAJETE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Mexico |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Eco-aesthetics, Metaphor, Story, and Symbolism: An Indigenous Perspective
Wisdom Traditions, Science and Care for the Earth: Pathways to Responsible Action
Children, myth and storytelling: An Indigenous perspective
This essay explores childhood education, storytelling, and the nature of myth from an Indigenous perspective. Aspects of Indigenous teaching and learning are discussed related to the ways myth and storytelling have traditionally functioned in Indigenous communities in the education of children. The deeper psychological nature of myth as an integral part of human learning, teaching, and socialization is also explored. These explorations form the b…
Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods
Indigenous education and the development of indigenous community leaders
The community context of education, affiliation, and affection influenced the development of American Indian leaders. In this essay, the role affection for family, community affiliation, and tribal culture is explored from a perspective of transformational teaching and learning in the context of community. Indigenous forms of education provided foundations for dynamic and multi-contextual processes of the development of community leaders. By expl…
Contemporary Indigenous education: A nature-centered American Indian philosophy for a 21st century world
Indigenous Knowledge: The Pueblo Metaphor of Indigenous Education
A Pueblo Story for Transformation
This chapter provides an overview of perspectives of “transformational education” that have been informed by my experience as an indigenous educator and as a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Growing up within the context of my community in New Mexico, I have gained important insights that I have applied to my work as an Indigenous educator. For the past 30 years, I have been working as a “front-line” educator exploring and impleme…
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
Cajete examines the multiple levels of meaning that inform Native astronomy, cosmology, psychology, agriculture, and the healing arts. Unlike the western scientific method, native thinking does not isolate an object or phenomenon in order to understand it, but perceives it in terms of relationship. An understanding of the relationships that bind together natural forces and all forms of life has been fundamental to the ability of indigenous people…
Medicine Women, "Curanderas," and Women Doctors
Perrone, Stockel, and Krueger spoke with ~9 women of three different healing traditions. For the most part, their interviews, some of which spanned years condensed and edited down to 5 to 20 pages each, provide an introduction to a European-schooled audience about the perspectives of American Indian women healers, New Mexican Latina healers, and several Euro-American women doctors trained in the United States at recognized colleges and institutio…
Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibres of Arid America
Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods
Children, myth and storytelling: An Indigenous perspective
This essay explores childhood education, storytelling, and the nature of myth from an Indigenous perspective. Aspects of Indigenous teaching and learning are discussed related to the ways myth and storytelling have traditionally functioned in Indigenous communities in the education of children. The deeper psychological nature of myth as an integral part of human learning, teaching, and socialization is also explored. These explorations form the b…
Indigenous education and the development of indigenous community leaders
The community context of education, affiliation, and affection influenced the development of American Indian leaders. In this essay, the role affection for family, community affiliation, and tribal culture is explored from a perspective of transformational teaching and learning in the context of community. Indigenous forms of education provided foundations for dynamic and multi-contextual processes of the development of community leaders. By expl…
Medicine Women, "Curanderas," and Women Doctors
Perrone, Stockel, and Krueger spoke with ~9 women of three different healing traditions. For the most part, their interviews, some of which spanned years condensed and edited down to 5 to 20 pages each, provide an introduction to a European-schooled audience about the perspectives of American Indian women healers, New Mexican Latina healers, and several Euro-American women doctors trained in the United States at recognized colleges and institutio…
Contemporary Indigenous education: A nature-centered American Indian philosophy for a 21st century world
Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibres of Arid America
Handbook of Indian Foods and Fibres of Arid America
Medicine Women, "Curanderas," and Women Doctors
Perrone, Stockel, and Krueger spoke with ~9 women of three different healing traditions. For the most part, their interviews, some of which spanned years condensed and edited down to 5 to 20 pages each, provide an introduction to a European-schooled audience about the perspectives of American Indian women healers, New Mexican Latina healers, and several Euro-American women doctors trained in the United States at recognized colleges and institutio…
Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence
Cajete examines the multiple levels of meaning that inform Native astronomy, cosmology, psychology, agriculture, and the healing arts. Unlike the western scientific method, native thinking does not isolate an object or phenomenon in order to understand it, but perceives it in terms of relationship. An understanding of the relationships that bind together natural forces and all forms of life has been fundamental to the ability of indigenous people…
A Pueblo Story for Transformation
This chapter provides an overview of perspectives of “transformational education” that have been informed by my experience as an indigenous educator and as a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Growing up within the context of my community in New Mexico, I have gained important insights that I have applied to my work as an Indigenous educator. For the past 30 years, I have been working as a “front-line” educator exploring and impleme…
Indigenous Knowledge: The Pueblo Metaphor of Indigenous Education
Contemporary Indigenous education: A nature-centered American Indian philosophy for a 21st century world
Weaving Indigenous and sustainability sciences to diversify our methods
Indigenous education and the development of indigenous community leaders
The community context of education, affiliation, and affection influenced the development of American Indian leaders. In this essay, the role affection for family, community affiliation, and tribal culture is explored from a perspective of transformational teaching and learning in the context of community. Indigenous forms of education provided foundations for dynamic and multi-contextual processes of the development of community leaders. By expl…
Children, myth and storytelling: An Indigenous perspective
This essay explores childhood education, storytelling, and the nature of myth from an Indigenous perspective. Aspects of Indigenous teaching and learning are discussed related to the ways myth and storytelling have traditionally functioned in Indigenous communities in the education of children. The deeper psychological nature of myth as an integral part of human learning, teaching, and socialization is also explored. These explorations form the b…
Eco-aesthetics, Metaphor, Story, and Symbolism: An Indigenous Perspective
Wisdom Traditions, Science and Care for the Earth: Pathways to Responsible Action
Sociology (7 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Indigenous Education (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Traditional knowledge (5 works) · Biology (4 works)