Indigenous knowledge systems
Application of indigenous knowledge systems in wildlife management: a case study of the Samburu pastoral community in Kenya
... ecological indigenous knowledge systems in rangeland management for the survival of their livestock in the harsh environment (Kameri-Mbote, 2005) ...of indigenous knowledge on wildlife ...
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Sustainable Learning In Rural South Africa
... privileges knowledge from a western perspective, Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) appreciate and draw from local content and forms of ...local knowledge and language in South ...
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Integration of indigenous knowledge systems and modern climate science: development of a mobile application to improve smallholder agricultural production.
... their indigenous knowledge (IK) for weather prediction through observing animal behaviour, plants and atmospheric as well as human ...some knowledge of ...variability. Indigenous ...
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Conservation of Natural Resources in the Shangwe Community in Gokwe District, Zimbabwe
... the indigenous knowledge systems of these two hallowed hills have been passed on from generation to generation among the ...and indigenous logic that these hills serve as sacred homes for ...
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Education for All (EFA) and 'African Indigenous Knowledge Systems (AIKS)': the case of the Chewa People of Zambia
... It is a sparsely populated country. The total population is estimated at 10.7 million, giving a population density of 11 persons per Square kilometre. The 2000 population census put the population living in urban areas ...
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Towards an Africa Philosophy of Education for Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Africa
... Indigenous knowledge is also sometimes termed traditional, endogenous or classical knowledge, and its Eu- rocentric critics allege that it often fails to contribute to the improvement of the quality ...
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Shangwe Indigenous Knowledge Systems: An Ethnometrological And Ethnomusicological Explication
... Participant observation advocates engaging in the field where one intends to collect data on music - cultures (Titon and Reck, 2009). As guided by Titon and Reck‟s ideas, the researchers fully participated in the ...
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Application of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Water Conservation and Management: The Case of Khambashe , Eastern Cape South Africa
... Indigenous Knowledge Systems are potential transformative tools if they are effectively integrated in water conservation and management systems not only as a matter of redress but also to ...
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Group resource rights and the protection of indigenous knowledge systems in international law
... Intellectual Property Law and Policy Really Aimed at Meaningful Protection of Native American Cultures?' 2004 15 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal 1 Nanc[r] ...
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Harnessing indigenous knowledge for sustainable forest management in Ghana
... scientific knowledge complemented with indigenous knowledge (IK) for economic ...-level knowledge provides the foundation for participatory approaches to development that are both cost ...
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Indigenous knowledge for disaster risk reduction: An African perspective
... scientific knowledge; they have always had their own approaches towards disaster risk reduction using their indigenous knowledge (Gaillard & Mercer ...this knowledge had been widely ...
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oa South Africa Rural Development Quarterly - Enhancing the role of indigenous knowledge in rural development through interdisciplinary knowledge sharing : managing indigenous knowledge system for development
... interdisciplinary knowledge sharing in indigenous knowledge systems, it is better to consider it at the early staging of capturing or compilation of ...interdisciplinary knowledge ...
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THE ROLE OF INDIGENOUS WEATHER FORECASTING KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS FOR ADAPTATION TO THE EFFECTS OF CLIMATE VARIABILITY ON AGRICULTURE IN KONDOA DISTRICT- TANZANIA
... comprehensive knowledge and participation of local communities in every process of ...consideration Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in responding to various environmental and socio- ...
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Indigenous knowledge and governance in protected areas in Australia and Sweden
... multiple systems of knowledge exist among human societies, “signifying the multiple ways of defining ...of knowledge” (Banuri and Apffel Marglin 1993, 9). Similar to other systems of ...
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Indigenous Knowledge Within Academia: Exploring the Tensions That Exist Between Indigenous, Decolonizing, and Nêhiyawak Methodologies
... of Indigenous ways of knowing and ...exist. Indigenous methodologies attack the research processes and aim to incorporate “alterNative” ways of thinking including Indigenous knowledge ...
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Importance of indigenous knowledge in flood risk reduction: a review
... improving knowledge concerning their environments. More often, this knowledge is applied in the form of coping strategies, adaptation, monitoring the weather and seasonal predictions ...The ...
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SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION: ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
... transcending knowledge, the dualism between religion and ...on indigenous intellectual traditions, history and culture should be developed to build indigenous social ...of knowledge in the ...
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Āta: An Indigenous Knowledge Based Pedagogical Approach to Teaching
... with indigenous and minority group learners. From an indigenous perspective, the ‘need to understand the whole is more important than understanding the parts’ [14] and with principles firmly imbedded in ...
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Indigenous Knowledge and the African Way Forward: Challenges and Opportunities
... contextual knowledge seems to be rela- tively less transferable than the conventional science, given its holistic socio-cultural and even spiritual dimen- sions ...proprietary systems which are often more ...
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Knowledge protection in indigenous communities: the case of indigenous medical knowledge systems in Zimbabwe
... 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Objectives of the Study 1.3 Key Issues in the Study 1.4 Outline of the Thesis of the study 1.5 Outline of the Problem under investigation 1.5.1 Exploitation of IMK s[r] ...
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