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Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa : Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture / edited by D. Kapoor, E. Shizha.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Astronomy.
- International education.
- Comparative education.
- School management and organization.
- Education.
- Educational sociology.
- Teachers--Training of.
- Teachers.
- Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Organization and Leadership.
- Sociology of Education.
- Teaching and Teacher Education.
- Local Subjects:
- Astronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.
- International and Comparative Education.
- Organization and Leadership.
- Education.
- Sociology of Education.
- Teaching and Teacher Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (284 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2010.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection makes a unique contribution towards the amplification of indigenous knowledge and learning by adopting an inter/trans-disciplinary approach to the subject that considers a variety of spaces of engagement around knowledge in Asia and Africa.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha
- Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development : claims on forests, land and place in India / Dip Kapoor
- Indigenous incitements / Kaushik Ghosh
- Against the flow : Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Aziz Choudry
- Ethnic minorities, indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods : struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh / Bijoy Barua
- Animals, ghosts and ancestors : traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa / Scott Simon
- Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia / Ehsanul Haque
- Rethinking and reconstituting indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe : a decolonization process / Edward Shizha
- Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal / Deepa Shakya
- Clash of oralities and textualities : the colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ali Abdi
- Autonomy and video mediation : Dalitbahujan women's utopian knowledge production / Sourayan Mookerjea
- Voicing our roots : a critical review of indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal / Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy and Rayyan Hassan
- Haya women's knowledge and learning : addressing land estrangement in Tanzania / Christine Mhina
- The indigenous knowledge system (IKS) of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria / Lantana Usman
- Traditional healing practices : conversations with herbalists in Kenya / Njoki Wane
- To die is honey, and to live is salt : indigenous epistemologies of wellness in Northern Ghana and the threat of institutionalized containment / Coleman Agyeyomah, Jonathan Langdon, and Rebecca Butler.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612915444
- 9781282915442
- 1282915444
- 9780230111813
- 0230111815
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