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Research data: INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS
2013 Science communication: fault lines between scientific and indigenous knowledge
Local or traditional knowledge is developed over centuries in communities inhabiting specific environments an often exhibiting a variety of ...
2013 Listening before telling: pairing indigenous knowledge with the school curriculum
A team of researchers set its sights on developing context-relevant teaching tools by using indigenous and local knowledge in the Cofimvaba ...
2013 Masihambisane, lessons learnt using participatory indigenous knowledge research approaches in a school-based collaborative project of the Eastern Cape
Masihambisane is an Nguni word, loosely meaning "let us walk the path together". The symbolic act of walking together is conceptually at the...
Download this report2012 Dialogical argumentation instruction as a catalytic agent for the integration of school science with indigenous knowledge systems
In South Africa and elsewhere, the integration of science and Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) is a contentious issue. This is due to both...