What is Indigenous Knowledge?: Voices from the Academy

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Ladislaus Semali, Joe L. Kincheloe
Taylor & Francis, 1999 - Education - 381 pages
Annotation This book focuses on the non-Western challenge to Eurocentric education, in particular, the way that challenge has been conceptualized in terms of indigenous knowledge. The editors and authors maintain that the study of indigenous knowledge injects a dramatic dynamic into the analysis of knowledge production and the rules of scholarship. Such a dynamic opens a new discussion in not only the discipline of education but in a variety of scholarly fields including philosophy, cultural studies, agriculture, health, nutrition, religion, and music. This book delineates not only what constitutes indigenous knowledge but how it can be used in various educational contexts-both non-Western and Western. Indeed, Western curriculums may never be the same after studies of indigenous knowledge are infused into them.
 

Contents

Chapter One
3
Chapter Two
59
Chapter Three
79
Chapter Four
95
Chapter Five
119
Chapter Six
143
Chapter Seven
157
Chapter Eight
179
Chapter Eleven
227
Chapter Twelve
243
Chapter Thirteen
269
Chapter Fourteen
285
Chapter Fifteen
305
Chapter Sixteen
317
Chapter Seventeen
333
About the Editors and Contributors
361

Chapter Nine
191
Chapter Ten
209

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