In 2007-08 one-year and two-year grants will be awarded ($5,000-$10,000)

Application deadline *January 15, 2007

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* All supporting documents must also be postmarked by this date. If an application deadline falls on a weekend or holiday, supporting documents may be postmarked the next business day.

By Stan Lehman
Associated Press
posted: 28 June 2006
10:46 am
ETSAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) --

A grouping of granite blocks along a grassy Amazon hilltop may be the vestiges of a centuries-old astronomical observatory -- a find archaeologists say indicates early rainforest inhabitants were more sophisticated than previously believed. The 127 blocks, some as high as 9 feet tall, are spaced at regular intervals around the hill, like a crown 100 feet in diameter.

On the shortest day of the year -- Dec. 21 -- the shadow of one of the
blocks, which is set at an angle, disappears.  "It is this block's alignment with the winter solstice that leads us to believe the site was once an astronomical observatory, '' said Mariana Petry Cabral, an archaeologist at the Amapa State Scientific and Technical Research Institute. "We may be also looking at the remnants of a sophisticated culture.''

NSF 03-032, The Cultural Context of Educational Evaluation: A Native American Perspective

Footprints: Strategies for Nontraditional Program Evaluation. This was based on a conference designed to explore other approaches to evaluation that might have particular relevance to our research programs.

And we had SRI International develop the On-Line Evaluation Resource Library (OERL). This is a webbased system that contains instruments, evaluation plans and evaluation reports drawn primarily from NSF-funded projects. It is on the web and is available for people to search, to borrow from, or to adapt if they want.

Indigenous Knowledge Systems/Alaska Native Ways of Knowing

by
Ray Barnhardt
Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
University of Alaska Fairbanks
[updated & posted online 4/29/2005]

Barnhardt, R., & Kawagley, A. O. (2005). Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Alaska Native Ways of Knowing. Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 36(1), pp. 8-23.

ABSTRACT

This article seeks to extend our understanding of the processes of learning that occur within and at the intersection of diverse world views and knowledge systems, drawing on experiences derived from across Fourth World contexts, with an emphasis on the Alaska context in particular. The article outlines the rationale behind a comprehensive program of educational initiatives that are closely articulated with the emergence of a new generation of indigenous scholars who are seeking to move the role of indigenous knowledge and learning from the margins to the center of the educational research arena and thus take on some of the most intractable and salient issues of our times.