African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences : Journeys into the Past and Present / edited by Gloria Emeagwali, Edward Shizha.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Emeagwali, Gloria., Editor.

Shizha, Edward, Editor.

Series:

Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XII, 220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2016.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.

Summary:

This 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.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: Epistemological and Pedagogical Issues

Interconnecting History, African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Science

Pedagogical Principles in Technology Education: An Indigenous Perspective

Schooling and the African Child: Bridging African Epistemology and Eurocentric Physical Sciences

African Indigenous Perspectives on Technology

Part 2: Indigenous Physics and Cosmology

Time: An African Cultural Perspective

Interrogating the Concept of Time among the Shona: A Postcolonial Discourse

Indigenous Physics and the Academy

Tiv Divination

The Stellar Knowledge of Indigenous South Africans

Part 3: Architecture

Nigerian Walls and Earthworks

Enclosures of the Old Oyo Empire, Nigeria

Enclosures of Northern Yorubaland, Nigeria

Part 4: Medicine

African Traditional Medicine Revisited

Ethnomusicologists and Medical Practitioners in Healthcare Delivery in Nigeria

Using Indigenous Narrative Therapy with People of the African Diaspora

Part 5: Metallurgy

Iron Metallurgy in Ancient Sudan

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9789463005159

9463005153

OCLC:

953458729