Indigenous Knowledge Across the Curriculum in the Global South: An Epistemic and Cognitive Shifting Process

We live in a world shrouded in hypocrisy. There is reference to the need to celebrate the diversity of humanity’s cultures, but when it comes to knowledge generation and dissemination, the epistemologies of the formerly colonized are always peripherized and in most cases not even accepted and acknow...

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1. Verfasser: Jacob Mapara
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:We live in a world shrouded in hypocrisy. There is reference to the need to celebrate the diversity of humanity’s cultures, but when it comes to knowledge generation and dissemination, the epistemologies of the formerly colonized are always peripherized and in most cases not even accepted and acknowledged (Hammersmith, 2007; Mawere 2012; Angelsupport, 2016). One would ask: Why does the world even bother to celebrate the diversity of human cultures but fails to embrace the diversity of the world’s knowledges yet the same cultures in their plurality are products of an assortment of epistemologies? Even though it is also true
DOI:10.2307/j.ctv2gs4grp.6