PARENT SESSION
Poster Session #10: Restoration Education.
Monday, August 5. Presentation from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM. Exhibit Hall B & C, TCC

Kaibab Environmental Education Network (KEEN): A restoration education model for Native communities.

WHITNEY, CORRIE^*,1, GLENNON, PATRICK^*,1, KEDZIERSKI, AMANDA^*,1, FREUDENBERG, KATE^*,1, JACKSON, ROLAND^*,1, ¹ Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ

ABSTRACT- KEEN, the Kaibab Environmental Education Network, implements community-based decision-making for ecological restoration and environmental education on the Arizona Strip. KEEN participants include forestry, anthropology and education students from NAU, Kaibab Paiute tribal leaders, Fredonia teachers and their students, and NAU professors in ecological restoration and education. NAU students incorporate cultural knowledge, restoration principles, and ecological issues generated in this diverse community network to implement effective restoration practices and sound science curricula. KEEN has completed its first year of collaboration. The research design for KEEN along with the data analysis from the first year are presented as the results of a pilot study used to inform the project collaborators regarding effective procedures for year two. Data sets include inventories of protocols and procedures generated by the network, interview transcripts along with restoration and educational artifacts. Inductive, on-going qualitative methods are used to analyze the evidence of community-based decision-making and education for ecological restoration generated by the KEEN project.

KEY WORDS: restoration, collaboration, Native, education