Two-Eyed Seeing in the Classroom Environment: Concepts, Approaches, and Challenges

Two-Eyed Seeing has been used to promote coexistence of disparate paradigms in education, medicine and wildlife health, and a growing number of studies point to its promise for fisheries research and management, but there has yet to be equivalent comprehensive consideration of Two-Eyed Seeing applications in fisheries.

“Two-Eyed Seeing has been used to promote the coexistence of disparate paradigms across a variety of fields-for instance, in education (Hatcher et al., 2009;McKeon, 2012), medicine (Hall et al., 2015;Martin, 2012) and wildlife health (Kutz & Tomaselli, 2019)-and while a growing number of studies point to its promise for fisheries research and management (e.g.Abu et al., 2019;Giles et al., 2016;M”

Two-Eyed Seeing is set apart from other Indigenous frameworks by its explicit action imperative: knowledge transforms the holder and the holder bears a responsibility to act on that knowledge.

“It is set apart from other Indigenous frameworks in its explicit action imperative-central to Two-Eyed Seeing is the notion that knowledge transforms the holder and that the holder bears a responsibility to act on that knowledge.”

Central to Two-Eyed Seeing is the notion that knowledge transforms the holder and that the holder bears a responsibility to act on that knowledge.

“Central to Two-Eyed Seeing is the notion that knowledge transforms the holder and that the holder bears a responsibility to act on that knowledge (Hatcher et al., 2009).”

Two-eyed seeing seeks to avoid knowledge domination and assimilation by recognizing the best from both worlds.

“Two-eyed seeing seeks to avoid knowledge domination and assimilation by recognizing the best from both worlds (Hatcher, Bartlett, Marshall, & Marshall, 2009).”