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Author : Louise Grenier,International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9780889368477
Working with Indigenous Knowledge: A guide for researchers
Author : Anders Breidlid,Roy Krøvel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000061826
This book discusses the vital importance of including indigenous knowledges in the sustainable development agenda. In the wake of colonialism and imperialism, dialogue between indigenous knowledges and Western epistemology has broken down time and again. However, in recent decades the broader indigenous struggle for rights and recognition has led to a better understanding of indigenous knowledges, and in 2015 the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined the importance of indigenous engagement in contributing to the implementation of the agenda. Drawing on experiences and field work from Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe, Indigenous Knowledges and the Sustainable Development Agenda brings together authors who explore social, educational, institutional and ecological sustainability in relation to indigenous knowledges. In doing so, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the concept of "sustainability", at both national and international levels, from a range of diverse perspectives. As the decolonizing debate gathers pace within mainstream academic discourse, this book offers an important contribution to scholars across development studies, environmental studies, education, and political ecology.
Author : Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba,Adeshina Afolayan,Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030343040
This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region. The contributors demonstrate ways in which African-centered knowledge refutes stereotypes depicted by Euro-centric scholars and, overall, examine indigenous African contributions in global knowledge production and development. The project provides historical and contemporary evidences that challenge the dominance of Euro-centric knowledge, particularly, about Africa, across various disciplines. Each chapter engages with existing scholarship and extends it by emphasizing on Indigenous knowledge systems in addition to future indicators of African knowledge production.
Author : Anders Breidlid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136224751
The book's focus is the hegemonic role of so-called modernist, Western epistemology that spread in the wake of colonialism and the capitalist economic system, and its exclusion and othering of other epistemologies. Through a series of case studies the book discusses how the domination of Western epistemology has had a major impact on the epistemological foundation of the education systems across the globe. The book queries the sustainability of hegemonic epistemology both in the classrooms in the global South as well as in the face of the imminent ecological challenges of our common earth, and discusses whether indigenous knowledge systems would better serve the pupils in the global South and help promote sustainable development.
Author : David Brokensha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015020713619
Monograph on traditional knowhow and information dissemination systems used by indigenous peoples and their potential role in rural development - presents case studies in the agricultural sector, discusses research methods for the study of ethnoscience, ethnolinguistics, etc. Bibliography pp. 409 to 443 and diagrams.
Author : Dennis M. Warren,Leendert Jan Slikkerveer,David Brokensha,Wim Dechering
Publisher : Practical Action
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015035007452
The potential of indigenous knowledge is being recognized for international development. This book argues that local people do know their environment, and that this knowledge has to be taken into account in planning and implementing accessible and effective development.
Author : Edward Shizha,Ali A. Abdi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134476091
African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the local, regional, and national levels. The book also reveals insightful examinations of the hype, the myths and the realities of many topics of concern with respect to dominant development discourses, and challenges the misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous perspectives on knowledge productions and overall social well-being or lack thereof. The volume brings together researchers who are concerned with comparative education, international development, and African development, research and practice in particular. Policy makers, institutional planners, education specialists, governmental and non-governmental managers and the wider public should all benefit from the contents and analyses of this book.
Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956791910
The continent of Africa is richly endowed with diverse cultures, a body of indigenous knowledge and technologies. These bodies of knowledge and technologies that are indeed embodied in the diverse African cultures are as old as humankind. From time immemorial, they have been used to solve socio-economic, political, health, and environmental problems, and to respond to the development needs of Africans. Yet with the advent of colonialism and Western scientism, these African cultures, knowledges, and technologies have been despised and relegated to the periphery, to the detriment of the self-reliant development of Africans. It is out of this observation and realisation that this book was born. The book is an exploration of the practical problems resulting from Africa's encounter with Euro-colonialism, a reflection of the nexus between indigenous knowledge, culture, and development, and indeed a call for the revival and reinstitution of indigenous knowledge, not as a challenge to Western science, but a complementary form of knowledge necessary to steer and promote sustainable development in Africa and beyond. This is a valuable book for policy makers, institutional planners, practitioners and students of social anthropology, education, political and social ecology, and development, African and heritage studies.
Author : Alan Bicker,Paul Stillitoe,Johan Pottier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134368174
This book illustrates the growing need for real understanding of local knowledge strategy and its power to assist in positive change.
Author : Alan Bicker,Johan Pottier,Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134514052
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1845456483
"Technological capability has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values, even threatening their continued existence. There is a growing realization that the diversity of knowledge systems demand respect; some refer to them in a conservation idiom as alternative knowledge banks. The scientific perspective is only one. We now have many examples of the soundness of local science and practices, some previously considered 'primitive' and in need of change. However, this book goes beyond demonstrating the soundness of local science and arguing for the incorporation of others' knowledge in development, to maintain that we need to look quizzically at the foundations of science itself and further challenge its hegemony, not only over local communities in Africa, Asia, the Pacific and elsewhere but also the global community.--Publisher
Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 1919876588
This book explores the role of the social and natural sciences in supporting the development of indigenous knowledge systems. It looks at how indigenous knowledge systems can impact on the transformation of knowledge generating institutions such as scientific and higher education institutions on the one hand, and the policy domain on the other.
Author : Catherine Alum Odora Hoppers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Culture
ISBN : 0958474923
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Intermediate Technology Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015049719290
If development is to continue to involve outside mediated interventions, in the belief that foreigners have knowledge and resources that can assist in relieving the degrading poverty endured by millions, the policymakers, scientists and bureaucrats need better to appreciate indigenous knowledge both before and while intervening locally.
Author : Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811366352
This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. Since the dawn of political independence in Africa, there has been an ongoing search for the kind of education that will create a class of principled and innovative citizens who are sensitive to and committed to the needs of the continent. When indigenous or environment-generated knowledge forms the basis of learning in classrooms, learners are able to immediately connect their education with their lived reality. The result is much introspection, creativity and innovation across fields, sectors and disciplines, leading to societal transformation. Drawing on several theoretical assertions, examples from a wide range of disciplines, and experiences gathered from different continents at different points in history, the book establishes that for education to trigger the necessary transformation in Africa, it should be constructed on a strong foundation of learners’ indigenous knowledge. The book presents a distinct and uncharted pathway for Africa to advance sustainably through home-grown and grassroots based ideas, leading to advances in science and technology, growth of indigenous African business and the transformation of Africans into conscious and active participants in the continent’s progress. Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa is of interest to educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, researchers and individuals engaged in finding sustainable and strategic solutions to regional and global advancement.
