Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa [[electronic resource] ] : Perspectives on Development, Education, and Culture / / edited by D. Kapoor, E. Shizha

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2010
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2010.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (284 p.)
• Disciplina: 001.089
• Soggetto topico: Astronomy; Astrophysics; International education ; Comparative education; School management and organization; School administration; Education; Educational sociology; Teaching; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology; International and Comparative Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Education, general; Sociology of Education; Teaching and Teacher Education
• Persona (resp. second.): KapoorD; ShizhaE
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Dip Kapoor and Edward Shizha -- Learning from Adivasi (original dweller) political-ecological expositions of development : claims on forests, land and place in India / Dip Kapoor -- Indigenous incitements / Kaushik Ghosh -- Against the flow : Maori knowledge and self-determination struggles confront neoliberal globalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand / Aziz Choudry -- Ethnic minorities, indigenous knowledge, and livelihoods : struggle for survival in Southeastern Bangladesh / Bijoy Barua -- Animals, ghosts and ancestors : traditional knowledge of Truku hunters on Formosa / Scott Simon -- Development enterprises and encounters with the Dayak and Moi communities in Indonesia / Ehsanul Haque -- Rethinking and reconstituting indigenous knowledge and voices in the academy in Zimbabwe : a decolonization process / Edward Shizha -- Education, economic and cultural modernization, and the Newars of Nepal / Deepa Shakya -- Clash of oralities and textualities : the colonization of the communicative space in Sub-Saharan Africa / Ali Abdi -- Autonomy and video mediation : Dalitbahujan women's utopian knowledge production / Sourayan Mookerjea -- Voicing our roots : a critical review of indigenous media and knowledge in Bengal / Sudhangshu Sekhar Roy and Rayyan Hassan -- Haya women's knowledge and learning : addressing land estrangement in Tanzania / Christine Mhina -- The indigenous knowledge system (IKS) of female pastoral Fulani of Northern Nigeria / Lantana Usman -- Traditional healing practices : conversations with herbalists in Kenya / Njoki Wane -- To die is honey, and to live is salt : indigenous epistemologies of wellness in Northern Ghana and the threat of institutionalized containment / Coleman Agyeyomah, Jonathan Langdon, and Rebecca Butler.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia
• ISBN: 1-282-91544-4; 9786612915444; 0-230-11181-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792124503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II