Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa

Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa
Author: Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9811366357

This open access book presents a strong philosophical, theoretical and practical argument for the mainstreaming of indigenous knowledge in curricula development, and in teaching and learning across the African continent. Since the dawn of political independence in Africa, there has been an ongoing search for the kind of education that will create a class of principled and innovative citizens who are sensitive to and committed to the needs of the continent. When indigenous or environment-generated knowledge forms the basis of learning in classrooms, learners are able to immediately connect their education with their lived reality. The result is much introspection, creativity and innovation across fields, sectors and disciplines, leading to societal transformation. Drawing on several theoretical assertions, examples from a wide range of disciplines, and experiences gathered from different continents at different points in history, the book establishes that for education to trigger the necessary transformation in Africa, it should be constructed on a strong foundation of learners’ indigenous knowledge. The book presents a distinct and uncharted pathway for Africa to advance sustainably through home-grown and grassroots based ideas, leading to advances in science and technology, growth of indigenous African business and the transformation of Africans into conscious and active participants in the continent’s progress. Indigenous Knowledge and Education in Africa is of interest to educators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, researchers and individuals engaged in finding sustainable and strategic solutions to regional and global advancement.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge

The Palgrave Handbook of African Education and Indigenous Knowledge
Author: Jamaine M. Abidogun
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 829
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 303038277X

This handbook explores the evolution of African education in historical perspectives as well as the development within its three systems–Indigenous, Islamic, and Western education models—and how African societies have maintained and changed their approaches to education within and across these systems. African education continues to find itself at once preserving its knowledge, while integrating Islamic and Western aspects in order to compete within this global reality. Contributors take up issues and themes of the positioning, resistance, accommodation, and transformations of indigenous education in relationship to the introduction of Islamic and later Western education. Issues and themes raised acknowledge the contemporary development and positioning of indigenous education within African societies and provide understanding of how indigenous education works within individual societies and national frameworks as an essential part of African contemporary society.

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Disciplines
Author: Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2014-11-26
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9462097704

This text explores the multidisciplinary context of African Indigenous Knowledge Systems from scholars and scholar activists committed to the interrogation, production, articulation, dissemination and general development of endogenous and indigenous modes of intellectual activity and praxis. The work reinforces the demand for the decolonization of the academy and makes the case for a paradigmatic shift in content, subject matter and curriculum in institutions in Africa and elsewhere – with a view to challenging and rejecting disinformation and intellectual servitude. Indigenous intellectual discourses related to diverse disciplines take center stage in this volume with a focus on education, mathematics, medicine, chemistry and engineering in their historical and contemporary context.

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa

Indigenous Knowledge and Learning in Asia/Pacific and Africa
Author: D. Kapoor
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2010-09-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0230111815

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.

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences
Author: Gloria Emeagwali
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2016-07-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9463005153

This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.

The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa

The Heartbeat of Indigenous Africa
Author: R. Sambuli Mosha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780815334644

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa

Indigenous Discourses on Knowledge and Development in Africa
Author: Edward Shizha
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134476094

African social development is often explained from outsider perspectives that are mainly European and Euro-American, leaving African indigenous discourses and ways of knowing and doing absent from discussions and debates on knowledge and development. This book is intended to present Africanist indigenous voices in current debates on economic, educational, political and social development in Africa. The authors and contributors to the volume present bold and timely ideas and scholarship for defining Africa through its challenges, possible policy formations, planning and implementation at the local, regional, and national levels. The book also reveals insightful examinations of the hype, the myths and the realities of many topics of concern with respect to dominant development discourses, and challenges the misconceptions and misrepresentations of indigenous perspectives on knowledge productions and overall social well-being or lack thereof. The volume brings together researchers who are concerned with comparative education, international development, and African development, research and practice in particular. Policy makers, institutional planners, education specialists, governmental and non-governmental managers and the wider public should all benefit from the contents and analyses of this book.

Gender, Democracy and Institutional Development in Africa

Gender, Democracy and Institutional Development in Africa
Author: Njoki Nathani Wane
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2019-04-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030118541

This book analyses African foundations of gender, education, politics, democracy and institutional development by stimulating theoretical discourses. It offers a discursive framework on ways to examine the conceptualizations of African social development and a critical discourse on debunking the misconceptions that are attached to African location in the global arena. The volume challenges the danger of minimizing and oversimplifying the role of Africa in the international space. This will be ideal for researchers, students and scholars in the areas of African and gender studies, development, politics and education.

African Studies

African Studies
Author: Information Reso Management Association
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2020
Genre: Africa
ISBN: 9781799830191

""This book examines the politics, culture, language, history, socio-economic development, methodologies, and contemporary experiences of African peoples from around the world"--Provided by publisher"

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development in Africa

Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Development in Africa
Author: Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2020-04-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030343049

This edited volume analyzes African knowledge production and alternative development paths of the region. The contributors demonstrate ways in which African-centered knowledge refutes stereotypes depicted by Euro-centric scholars and, overall, examine indigenous African contributions in global knowledge production and development. The project provides historical and contemporary evidences that challenge the dominance of Euro-centric knowledge, particularly, about Africa, across various disciplines. Each chapter engages with existing scholarship and extends it by emphasizing on Indigenous knowledge systems in addition to future indicators of African knowledge production.