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In 2001 the Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Focus Area Programme (FAP) was established with ring- fenced funding from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to hasten the development of the field and managed by the National Research Foundation (NRF). The management of this IKS FAP funding was reviewed in 2004 by a DST elected national panel. The panel recommended that the …
In ‘africahistory.net’ we present various perspectives on African Indigenous Knowledge Systems(AIK) from a wide range of scholars. We publish brief extracts from scholarly works on the subject and also make selected video-films, on the subject, available.
Traditional medicine (also known as indigenous or folk medicine) comprises medical aspects of traditional knowledge that developed over generations within various societies before the era of …
integration of modern science and indigenous knowledge systems: towards a coexistence of the two systems of knowing in the south african curriculum
knowledge, one can state that indigenous traditional knowledge is the totality of all knowledge and practices established on past experiences and observation that is held and used by a people. Intellectual property (IP) is ‘generally synonymous
BEQUESTS AND VERACITIES OF AFRICAN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AS A MEANS OF IMPROVING MUSIC EDUCATION Odunuga A. F Department of Music, Adeyemi College of Education Ondo State, Nigeria Ogunrinade D. O. A Department of Music, Adeyemi College of Education Ondo State, Nigeria
The very existence of the world Indigenous movement is a product of globalization, especially in the field of information technology, air travel, telephone and now the internet, have helped to link Indigenous peoples together worldwide, to increase the visibility of Indigenous peoples, and to amplify Indigenous peoples’ collective voices.
2nd and 3rd June 2010 The Park Hyatt Rosebank. Johannesburg Tel: +27 11 781 9131 Email: info@asmcomm.co.za www.asmcomm.co.za African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Welcome to Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IAJIKS). The name Indilinga: stands for the “circular orientation” of indigenous African communities which is exhibited in their material culture and behaviour.
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems Professor Gloria Emeagwali Introduction In the first part of the paper, we examine conceptual issues associated with Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IK), including the nature of the intersection between Science and IK.
PDF On Jul 3, 2007, Ndangwa Noyoo and others published Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Their Relevance for Sustainable Development: A Case of Southern Africa
constructive dialogue between people and between indigenous knowledge systems Implications of clash of knowledge Systems on Education . The Traditional – Modern Dichotomy Formal Education epistemologies linked to modernity urban Indigenous Education epistemologies rooted in traditional cultures of local people • ` “..the African child finds him/herself having to cross the cultural
Culture, indigenous knowledge systems and sustainable development: A critical view of education in an African context Anders Breidlid* Oslo University College, PO …
Definitions are numerous: Indigenous Knowledge Systems are described in the South African Revised Curriculum Statements as “a body of knowledge embedded in African philosophical thinking and social practices that have evolved over thousands of years”
Indigenous Knowledge in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities. An Inaugural Lecture by Anwar Osman Centre for Africa Studies 1. Introduction. Although African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) have existed for thousands of years, their concept and practice began to emerge in the science spheres only three decades ago. The development of new political, economic and cultural realities and
Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
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African indigenous knowledge could develop in tandem with modernisation during the periods of colonisation and apartheid, were stifled and positively restricted …
indigenous knowledge systems per se, with a particular interest in indigenous soil classification and management methods (see Critchley, Reij and Wilcocks, 1994, for example), as well as on indigenous technologies, water conservation techniques and
Studies in African indigenous medical knowledge and the perception and treatment of illnesses require a significant intellectual concern given the interface of indigenous knowledge and health. This paper seeks to argue that there exist an indigenous peoples’ medical knowledge systems and these
Welcome to Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IAJIKS). Indilinga is an independent and fully accredited publication. The name Indilinga: stands for the “circular orientation” of indigenous African communities which is exhibited in their material culture and behaviour. The journal has been motivated by the need for a dependable expression for critical and analytical
Indigenous Knowledge’s Systems in the African Century By Prof Mathole Motshekga B.Iuris, LLB (UNISA), LLM (Harvard), LLD (UNISA) Director: Kara Heritage Institute
xi Preface The Struggle for African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Age of Globalization generally focuses on indigenous knowledge systems (IKSs) in formally colonized African societies.
Education and the Revitalisation of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa: A Paradigm Shift in Curriculum Content 888 periods and whose patterns are based upon local knowledge systems and expressed in local languages
Study of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) as an important pathway to further unearth Africa’s contributions and provide basis for sound advocacy for African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) to be given due visibility in all areas of academic, social, cultural and industrial
The Department outlined the historical background to Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in South Africa, and the changes that recognised the worth of IKS outside of the leading academic institutions. There were now new moral and cognitive spaces to engage in constructive dialogue about the different
African Indigenous Knowledge Systems have been ignored due to Africa’s political history of suppression of human rights based on race and culture and partly from accelerating globalization (DST 2011). Human nature, from a traditional African perspective, is socially constructed as people define themselves in relation to others; and the ‘self’ is a product of that which emerges from
over indigenous traditional political setting and foreign dominance and subjugation of African people in all spheres of their social, political, cultural, economic and religious civilisations. Afro Asian Journal of Social Sciences Volume 1, No. 1 Quarter IV 2010 ISSN 2229 – 5313 Western civilisation and culture began to creep into African socio-cultural milieu, first, with the contact of
This article focuses on the image of men and women as part of the indigenous knowledge systems embodied in cultural norms and values. These values are no longer observed in many African communities. The article also seeks to investigate how the indigenous music of Southern African communities represents expected gender roles and how it reacts to any behaviour that is perceived …
African indigenous knowledge systems in agricultural production: a consultative report for Department of Science and Technology, National Indigenous Knowledge Sytems Office (NIKSO), Pretoria, South Africa
comparative Indigenous Knowledge systems deserve mention. The good advice, support and The good advice, support and friendship of Dr. Sarah Kaddu, has been invaluable on both an academic and a …
It’s Africa Month so we take a look at the degree in indigenous knowledge systems offered at North West University. The first batch of students graduated in April.
their indigenous knowledge systems, I.K.S., which is a unique intellectual foundation that embodies the different corpora of practices, thoughts, skills, techniques and epistemologies. It is a system of knowledge that is invented over a long period of time, passed on by generations, which existed in indigenous communities prior to the advent of exogenous/foreign ones. I.K.S.’s relevance to
CONVERGING INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION by JEROME ALVIN HAMMERSMITH submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION in the subject COMPARATIVE EDUCATION at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: DR MP VAN NIEKERK NOVEMBER 2007 . …
Green, Lesley J F: The Indigenous Knowledge Systems Policy of 2004: Challenges for South African Universities [pdf] This study examines the strategy, adopted by the South African cabinet in 2004, to integrate indigenous knowledge systems into education, agriculture, science, law, art and the health system.
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Indigenous knowledge and climate change in Africa Indigenous knowledge systems and climate change management in Africa 5 Acronyms ACP African, Caribbean and Pacific
Juxtaposing Ubuntu Values, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Entrepreneurship: Antecedents Underpinning Ubuntupreneurship in Communal Wealth Generation Elliot Kasu Da Vinci Institute of Technology and Innovation, South Africa ABSTRACT There is a long-standing consensus in most developing countries particularly of Southern Africa that Ubuntu values and indigenous knowledge systems …
African traditional societies are rich in indigenous knowledge systems that can contribute to communal social constructive values and practices which …
AFRICAN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS, GREEN ECONOMIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPERATIVES Presentation by Joseph Z.Z Matowanyika Director, Institute of Lifelong Learning and Development Studies, Chinhoyi
The aim of this study was to investigate the relevance of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS) in contemporary conflict transformation with specific reference to the chieftaincy of the Bakweri people of the South West Region of Cameroon. The – typhonian tradition in magic pdf 1. INTRODUCTION Purpose of this document The Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) Policy, adopted in November 2004, was the result of an interdepartmental effort to create a guide for the recognition, understanding,
Prospect of Integrating African Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Teaching of Sciences in Africa. J. Abah 1,, P. Mashebe 1, D.D. Denuga 1. 1 Department of Mathematics, Science and Sport Education, Faculty of Education, University of Namibia, Katima Mulilo Campus, Private Bag, 1096, Katima Mulilo, Namibia
Indigenous knowledge can be called by various names such as indigenous knowledge of knowing [Mapara, 2009], traditional knowledge, rural knowledge as well as ethno science [Altieri,1995] Indigenous knowledge is therefore generated by a particular society within a
Welcome to Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. The journal has been motivated by the need for a dependable expression for critical and analytical writing on issues related to production, dissemination and recognition of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. IAJIKS represents a variety of cross disciplinary interests in ethno
African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences Journeys into the Past and Present Gloria Emeagwali and Edward Shizha (Eds.) SensePublishers African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences Journeys into the Past and Present Gloria Emeagwali Central Connecticut State University, USA and Edward Shizha (Eds.) Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada This book is an intellectual journey …
IK Notes Rural people in Africa have always main-tained a certain formidable power that guards their indigenous institutions and knowledge systems, thereby maintaining
90 Alokwu Cyprian Obiora and Ezenwaji Emma Emeka: African Indigenous Knowledge System and Environmental Sustainability encourages the subjects to participate in the research.
of Indigenous knowledge systems. In the science subjects, teaching and learning are In the science subjects, teaching and learning are expected to acknowledge the existence of different knowledge systems.
Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and agricultural research for sustainable livelihood in South Africa. Examples Examples were drawn from the following provinces Eastern Cape, Kwazulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North-
that indigenous knowledge could and should play in public educational systems across Africa, and how this role could possibly influence the three principles of pan-Africanism – namely, collective self-reliance, self-sus-
African indigenous knowledge systems and relevance of higher education in South Africa indigenous knowledge systems as a tool for making higher education relevant to the developmental challenges in South Africa and African at large (Muya, 2007). The call for the interfacing of iKS with other knowledge systems is based on tenets that it can contribute to humanising the western knowledge systems
Alternation 21,2 (2014) 10 – 37 ISSN 1023-1757 10 African Languages, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), and the Transformation of the
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African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (Indilinga)
xi Preface The Struggle for African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Age of Globalization generally focuses on indigenous knowledge systems (IKSs) in formally colonized African societies.
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It’s Africa Month so we take a look at the degree in indigenous knowledge systems offered at North West University. The first batch of students graduated in April.
Juxtaposing Ubuntu Values Indigenous Knowledge Systems
African Languages Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) and
African indigenous knowledge systems in agricultural production: a consultative report for Department of Science and Technology, National Indigenous Knowledge Sytems Office (NIKSO), Pretoria, South Africa
Indilinga African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems
indigenous knowledge systems per se, with a particular interest in indigenous soil classification and management methods (see Critchley, Reij and Wilcocks, 1994, for example), as well as on indigenous technologies, water conservation techniques and
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Welcome to Indilinga: African Journal of Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IAJIKS). Indilinga is an independent and fully accredited publication. The name Indilinga: stands for the “circular orientation” of indigenous African communities which is exhibited in their material culture and behaviour. The journal has been motivated by the need for a dependable expression for critical and analytical
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CONVERGING INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TERTIARY EDUCATION by JEROME ALVIN HAMMERSMITH submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF EDUCATION in the subject COMPARATIVE EDUCATION at the UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA PROMOTER: DR MP VAN NIEKERK NOVEMBER 2007 . …
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Juxtaposing Ubuntu Values, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, and Entrepreneurship: Antecedents Underpinning Ubuntupreneurship in Communal Wealth Generation Elliot Kasu Da Vinci Institute of Technology and Innovation, South Africa ABSTRACT There is a long-standing consensus in most developing countries particularly of Southern Africa that Ubuntu values and indigenous knowledge systems …
African Indigenous knowledge Systems africahistory.net
It’s Africa Month so we take a look at the degree in indigenous knowledge systems offered at North West University. The first batch of students graduated in April.
Culture indigenous knowledge systems and sustainable
comparative Indigenous Knowledge systems deserve mention. The good advice, support and The good advice, support and friendship of Dr. Sarah Kaddu, has been invaluable on both an academic and a …
The Struggle of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems in an
Part 2 Ch10 Indigenous Knowledge WIReDSpace Home
The Indigenous Medical Knowledge Systems Perceptions and
Definitions are numerous: Indigenous Knowledge Systems are described in the South African Revised Curriculum Statements as “a body of knowledge embedded in African philosophical thinking and social practices that have evolved over thousands of years”
The Protection of Indigenous Knowledge through the
INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM AND DEVELOPMEMT PROCESS IN AFRICA
Indigenous Religious Environmentalism in Africa
Alternation 21,2 (2014) 10 – 37 ISSN 1023-1757 10 African Languages, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS), and the Transformation of the
Indigenous Religious Environmentalism in Africa
Juxtaposing Ubuntu Values Indigenous Knowledge Systems