Indigenous Ways of Doing, Knowing, and the Underlying Mathematics: Exploratory Workshop

这是一个小型研讨会提案，旨在将Yup‘ik科学家和教育工作者与他们在挪威的萨米人同事聚集在一起，进行为期3天的研讨会，在文化背景下探索数学。研讨会将通过它们与实践、认识论和宇宙论的联系来研究Yup‘ik和Saami数学系统。国际和平协会曾傑瑞·利普卡博士多年来一直与尤皮克长老和老师合作，探索日常任务或问题背后的认知过程，例如：为服装制作样板，这个过程不仅涉及几何和数学，还包括尤皮克人的宇宙论和文化认识论。研讨会的目的是与萨米人合作，探索通过数学原理理解北极“土著”认知过程的可能性。研讨会将在挪威科托凯诺的萨米大学学院举行。预计将有10-15人参加，其中包括来自台湾、澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰的自费学者。除研讨会外，与会者还将参加8月24日至26日举行的世界土著国家高等教育联盟会议。

This is a small workshop proposal to bring together Yup'ik scientists and educators with their Saami colleagues in Norway for a 3 day workshop to explore mathematics in a cultural context. The workshop will examine Yup'ik and Saami mathematical systems through their connections to practice, epistemology, and cosmology. The PI, Dr. Jerry Lipka, has been working with Yup'ik elders and teachers for several years exploring the cognitive processes behind everyday tasks or problems such as: making a pattern for clothing, a process that not only involves geometry and mathematics but encompasses Yup'ik cosmology and cultural epistemology. The purpose of the workshop is to work together with Saami people to explore the possibility of an Arctic "indigenous" cognitive process that can be understood through mathematical principles.The workshop will take place at the Sami University College in Kautokeino, Norway. There is an expected 10-15 participants, including scholars from Taiwan, Australia, Canada and New Zealand at their own expense. In addition to the workshop the participants will be attending the World Indigenous Nations Higher Education Consortium meetings August 24th-26th.