Indigenous knowledge : philosophical and educational considerations /
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Indigenous Knowledge: Philosophical and Educational Consideration
- Series Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Notion of Indigenous Knowledge
- Chapter Outline
- Note
- Chapter 1
- The Idea of Indigenous Knowledge
- 'Indigenous Knowledge'
- Reclamation
- Decolonization
- Recognition and Acknowledgment
- Legitimization and Validation
- Protection
- Critique and Condemnation of Western or Northern Epistemologies and Rationality
- Notes
- Chapter 2
- Relational Epistemology and the Idea of Epistemological Diversity
- 'Blood Knowledge'
- Different 'Ways of Knowing'
- Epistemological Diversity
- Knowledge, Epistemology, and Education
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Chapter 3
- An Analysis of Knowledge and Epistemology
- The Classical Philosophical Definition of Knowledge
- Cognitive and Educational Concepts
- Knowledge and Belief
- Primary and Secondary Sources of Knowledge
- Evidence and Belief: The Central Role of Observation
- Observation and Sensation (Or Sense Experience)
- Evidence and Belief: The Importance of Testimony and Trustworthiness
- Different Kinds of Reasoning: Going Beyond the Evidence
- Explanation
- Indoctrination and Rational Persuasion
- Argument and Argumentation
- Epistemic Internalism and Epistemic Externalism
- Truth
- Justification and Context
- Knowledge, Context, and Epistemological Relativism
- Skepticism
- Epistemic Obligation
- Epistemic Parentalism
- Epistemological and Formal Access, and the Problem with Constructivism
- Notes
- Chapter 4
- A Critique of Indigenous Knowledge
- The Esprit Sorcier and the African Renaissance
- Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledge
- Imò and igbàgbó: The Yoruba Definition of Knowledge
- "Truth as Opinion"
- Making Sense of 'Epistemological Diversity'
- Feminist Critiques of Epistemology and the Problem of Relativism Revisited
- Indigenization and Islamization
- The Value of Diversity for Knowledge
- Educational Implications
- Notes
- Chapter 5
- Ethnomathematics
- Ethnomathematics versus Mainstream or Academic Mathematics
- The Defense of Ethnomathematics
- Truth and Knowledge
- Mathematics, 'Social Interests' and the Problem of Relativism
- Fundamental Difference and the 'Cultural Boundedness' of Mathematical Knowledge
- Educational Challenges
- Shifts in Definition and Direction, and the Dismissal of Critical Philosophical Engagement
- Mathematics Education and Rights
- Notes
- Chapter 6
- Indigenous Science
- Native American Creationism versus Archaeology
- 'Knowledge Diversity', Truth and Context-Dependence: Postmodernist and Postcolonial Turns
- Indigenous Science and the Problems of Superstition and Relativism
- Notes
- Chapter 7
- Traditional Ecological (or Environmental) Knowledge
- "We See Nature Differently and Speak to and About it Differently"
- Indigenous Rights versus Animal Rights
- "Where the Green Ants Dream"