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Indigenous knowledge systems

2018
This conceptual paper draws attention to the relevance of cultures to management philosophy with the purpose of contributing to a culturally viable practice of management in Africa. It has been shown that the different management theories in the form that they have been developed in the West may not fit culturally in Africa.
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Indigenous Knowledge Systems

2020
Colonial authorities, the world over, have persistently ignored, misunderstood and even decimated Indigenous peoples and their knowledge. In this chapter, I argue for Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) as valid for the generation and dissemination of knowledge among Indigenous communities, and for the preservation of those knowledge systems as key for ...
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Indigenous Knowledge Within a Global Knowledge System

Higher Education Policy, 2005
Faced with globalizing forces that promote universal approaches to knowledge and understanding, indigenous peoples have reacted by abandoning the old ways or alternately seeking to re-discover ancient wisdoms as foundations for pathways to the future. Increasingly, however, a third way has been to focus on the interface between indigenous knowledge and
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Indigenous knowledge systems

2015
Chapter 15 describes the tensions that exist between Western scientific approaches and Indigenous Knowledge Systems. It illustrates the way in which traditional knowledge of, for example, herbal medicines, has a potentially very high economic value and describes how this can be developed in partnership between local and global interests. It also covers
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Spaces Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems

2013
There are multiple ways of experiencing, knowing and communicating. In our shared doctoral experience as an Indigenous candidate and a non-Indigenous supervisor, Treahna and I developed a relationship which was underpinned by the Indigenous concept of Deep Listening. Deep Listening is a concept which appears in many Aboriginal languages in Australia.
Laura Brearley, Treahna Hamm
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Discussing indigenous knowledge and indigenous knowledge systems in Africa

ESARBICA Journal: Journal of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the International Council on Archives, 2013
This brief communication reports on the First Annual International Conference on Indigenous Knowledge (IK) and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in Africa. The conference was hosted by the Faculty of Communication and Information Science at the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe from 23 to 24 August 2011.
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