ENV100H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Traditional Knowledge

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Simon Appolloni

Document Summary

Traditional knowledge: considerations for protecting water in ontario: worldview and knowledge: Worldview refers to how one views and experiences the world. Framework of ideas and beliefs through which an individual, group or culture interprets the world and interacts with it. The fundamental cognitive orientation of an individual or society encompassing the entirety of the individual or society"s knowledge. Indigenous understanding and relationships to the natural world, environment, Creation is embedded within the worldview of the society and culture from which it originates. How a society and culture perceives itself and views nature will affect how knowledge is constructed.