Exploring Indigenous Spiritualities In-Relation: How Might Science and Math Education Become Different?

The idea for this symposium took shape at the last CSSE Meeting in Toronto, where a discussion of ecoliteracy seemed to meander around questions and explorations of spirituality. This symposium attempts to put Indigenous Spiritualities in relation with education subfields (math and science education), which may often operate in a technical rational mindset, culture, and/or set of practices. The authors/presenters come together to engage this topic from a variety of perspectives in mathematics and science education to see how education, especially those subfields that often adhere strongly to Modern Western Ways of knowing, might open to different relational and significant ways of being in and knowing the world. This kind of epistemic and pedagogical opening will also require an openness to seriously engage in decolonizing work and an education that seeks more ecologically attentive, imaginative, and just ways of living in the world. We collectively affirm that engaging the spiritual in education is an essential part of learning to live differently in deeply troubled times and spaces.