Choose a species of native Australian flora OR fauna
For the 2,500 word final essay, you will choose a species of native Australian flora OR fauna and analyse how this species is understood from a Western knowledge/scientific perspective AND from an Indigenous knowledge/scientific perspective. Be as specific and as accurate as you are able to be from your materials about the kind of perspectives you are engaging (for example, saying 'a conservation science perspective' might be more accurate, in one instance, than simply 'a Western perspective'). Your analysis should address all of the following three questions: 1. How are these understandings different and/or similar? 2. What does comparing these perspectives and findings reveal about ways of knowing? 3. How does this fit within the course's wider theme of knowledge as power, as socially constructed, and as differently valued?
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