Towards Being Wounded by Thought: Indigenous Metaphysics Is (Still) Waiting in the Wings of Science Education

Abstract

The purpose of this concluding chapter is to summarize and synthesize of the book, highlighting the ways in which Indigenous science is (yet-)to-come within science education. Following a short musing on conclusions, (fore)closure, and the importance of being wounded by thought, each chapter is revisited to (re)articulate the significance of their contributions with the triple(d) understanding of to-come explored within the book in mind: (a) Indigenous science, in the context of science education, has not yet (wholly) arrived; (b) where and how science education might be (re)opened towards hospitably receiving Indigenous science; and (c) the types of deconstructive practices that support this work. The chapter, and in turn the book, ends with an affirmative message that the potentiality of Indigenous ways-of-living-with-Nature in science education remains, even if not fully actualized; thus, an invitation to continue labouring the space of responsiveness towards Indigenous science.