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Research data: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
2017 Mathematical concepts from community elders: exploring the connection between ethnomathematical contexts and classroom practices
Members of the community possess a wealth of knowledge in indigenous activities and artifacts. The analysis of the various indigenous activi...
2016 Movement to restore indigenous knowledge in policy and practice
How can tacit knowledge unique to a certain culture and not described in academic books - termed indigenous knowledge - be brought onto an e...
2016 Indigenous knowledge systems: the successes and the polemics
Policy initiatives on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) have come a long way, but implementation remains problematic and answers are not st...
2016 Digital preservation of indigenous knowledge (IK) by cultural heritage institutions: a comparative study of Nigeria, South Africa and Uganda
This paper strives to explore the state of digitisation of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) across the three countries: Nigeria, South Africa and U...
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