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The Research and Advocacy Group for Hunter Gatherer Education (HG-EDU), focuses on issues relating to education for contemporary hunting and gathering societies. The central aim of this group is to use understandings based on scientific research to support hunter-gatherer communities’ ongoing efforts to control their own educational options and to secure sustainable livelihoods. Our research and advocacy approach connects the concept of education with realistic livelihood opportunities, land rights, biodiversity, and other environmental and cultural issues. The focus of HG-EDU is both on access to formal education, and alternative approaches.

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Become a member of the Hunter Gatherer Education – Research and Advocacy Group (HG-EDU) and start collaborating with fellow members.

Research

Contributing with research output to hunter-gatherer communities’ ongoing efforts in securing sustainable livelihoods through education

Advocacy

Advocating for inclusive policies based on empirical local solutions to address the livelihood challenges of contemporary hunter-gatherers.

Collaboration

Providing a collaborative online environment for researchers, practitioners, community members and policy-makers for information exchange

World Map of Hunter-Gatherers

* only those hunter-gatherer communities are marked on the map that HG-EDU has connection to (the list is continously expanding in a co-creative way, please send your addition)

Upcoming Events

Events

Latest News

HG-Edu Workshop 2019, Tromsø

Hunter Gatherer Education: Directions for Research and Advocacy 24-25 September 2019, Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. Workshop announcement and registration here  This 2-day…

Terminology

Hunter-gatherers are small scale, mostly egalitarian, societies that depend primarily on non-domesticated resources obtained directly from their natural environment – through hunting animals, gathering plant food, fishing, or scavenging. A more general term for this is ‘foraging’ and such peoples are also sometimes referred to as ‘foragers’ – or often ‘post-foragers’, given that most such societies no longer survive through these subsistence techniques alone. Though extremely diverse, such groups share some common characteristics in regards to their social structure, and their relations with surrounding groups and state governments. It is these commonalities, and how they influence access to resources and possibilities for self-determination, are our focus. We use the terms referring to hunters and gatherers to acknowledge these structural issues and because it is common usage.

By education we are referring broadly to inter- and intragenerational knowledge transmission that is practised by all cultures, and also more narrowly to formal education, commonly associated with schooling, and to the inter-relations between these spheres.

Traditional knowledge (TK) is knowledge, know-how, skills and practices that are developed, sustained and passed on from generation to generation within a community, often forming part of its cultural or spiritual identity. (source: WIPO)