Indigenous Local Knowledge as a Key to Local-level Development: Possibilities, Constraints and Planning Issues in the Context of Africa
Author: Oluwayomi David Atte
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 58
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Author: Oluwayomi David Atte
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 58
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 48
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-07-08
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9463005153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.
Author: Mishack T. Gumbo
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-07-21
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9819913969
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been a growing interest in indigenous knowledge systems and research. This interest has been mainly triggered by the need to decolonize education as a response to the colonial onslaught on indigenous knowledge and people. Research has, however, concentrated on the generality of the indigenous knowledge system rather than on its related dimensions. One area that has suffered a lack of attention is indigenous conceptions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) despite the unquestionable evidence of STEM in indigenous contexts. Most STEM is presented by colonial establishments and representations, especially in developed/modern/urban contexts, which portray STEM as a colonial construct. This book focuses on indigenous technological knowledge systems education (ITKSE). Indigenous people have been at the front of technological developments from pre-colonial times. The list of precolonial industries, science, and technology is extensive, including blacksmithing, wood-carving, textile-weaving and dyeing, leather works, beadworks, pottery making, architecture, agricultural breeding, metal-working, salt production, gold-smithing, copper-smithing, leather-crafting, soap-making, bronze-casting, canoe-building, brewing, glass-making, and agriculture, for example. In some parts of the world such as Africa and Australia, these technologies still exist. ITKSE should not be left to exist outside of the technology education curriculum and classroom as it can benefit both indigenous students, who have been denied learning about what is relevant to them, and non-indigenous students. These cultural groups can expand their knowledge of technology by learning both ITKSE and Western technological knowledge systems education (WTKSE). ITKSE also presents opportunities for technology teachers to reflect on and revisit their depth of technological knowledge, pedagogies, and assessment. The intent of this book is transformational in the sense that it brings decolonial and indigenous perspectives into the technology education context. It extends technology education in the sense that it will not only influence Western-minded architects, artisans, designers, etc. but encourage indigenous-mindedness as well.
Author: International Program on Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 0889366837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional Ecological Knowledge: Concepts and cases
Author: D. Kapoor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-09-28
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0230100643
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing primarily from critical traditions in social and educational research, this book frames contemporary issues and several conceptual, theoretical-analytical and onto-epistemic approaches towards the development and practice of PAR (Participatory Action Research) in multiple educational spaces and initiatives for socio-cultural change.
Author: Alan Dixon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1351723901
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. There has been increasing recognition around the world that wetlands are fragile ecosystems which require sensitive and sustainable management if they are to continue to provide their range of functions and benefits. These functions and benefits, which include contributions to food security and environmental regulation, play a critical role in sustaining rural livelihoods in many developing countries. Drawing upon research carried out in the area, this book identifies and discusses the importance of wetlands to local communities in south-west Ethiopia, and in particular, how indigenous wetland management practices contribute to sustainable wetland use. As the basis of wetland management, particular attention is paid to the role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and how knowledge of wetland functioning is acquired, disseminated, developed and applied by local communities in their wetland management strategies. Critically, this community knowledge is examined in the context of scientific data, specifically that obtained from a wetland hydrology monitoring programme, thereby drawing attention to the strengths and weaknesses of both systems. This has major implications not only for the ways in which wetlands and other natural resources are managed at the local level, but also for the wider rural development strategies of governments and non-governmental organizations.
Author: M. Israel Thomas
Publisher: Scientific Publishers
Published: 2012-07-04
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9386347733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book Participatory Technology Development: A Technique for Indigenous Technical Knowledge Refinement comprehensively presenting in depth about Participatory Technology Development, Experimentation, Indigenous wisdom of the farming community, perception aspects of farmers, scientists and extension personnel towards PTD and Technology transfer process. This will enable the different category of users namely the researchers, field extension workers, NGO personnel, student researchers etc, to understand the latest advancement in PTD and the ways and means of solving field issues and follow those ideas in their activities. Thus the book will certainly satisfy those readers who intensely use it.
Author: Valentine U. James
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1996-02-13
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0313023409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSustainable development has been approached from many viewpoints over the past 15 years without a concise or precise definition of what sustainable development really stands for. James has solicited contributions from an international group of experts who write about aspects of sustainable development from many different disciplines. Their consensus is that sustainability depends upon concerted development across the spectrum of socioeconomic factors that affect the environment, natural resources, health, education, and welfare of the populations in the emerging nations. The necessity of incorporating indigenous knowledge with technological and international expertise has become crucial.