Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa
Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture
D Kapoor editor E Shizha editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:18th Oct '10
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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.
"With a sterling cast of contributors and insightful studies of indigenous knowledge and learning, Kapoor and Shizha have assembled a volume of careful and outstanding studies. Their collection will be of use to all scholars and decision makers interested in how indigenous knowledge works." - Arun Agrawal, Professor and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Natural Resources and Environment (SNRE), University of Michigan
"A profoundly illuminating and scholarly discourse on indigenous knowledge systems in an Afro-Asian and interdisciplinary context. Kapoor and Shizha have initiated a new era of cross-regional research in a text that should be of interest to development planners, historians, social scientists, and educators." - Gloria Emeagwali, Professor of History and African Studies, Central Connecticut State University
ISBN: 9780230621015
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 510g
275 pages