Sustaining Diverse Knowledge Systems in SEPLs: Sharing Tacit Knowledge of Apiculture and Mushroom Production with Future Generations

This article argues that different cultures and their respective knowledge systems should partake to the sustainability debate. The focus is on insights that indigenous knowledge may provide, analyzing the principles which oversee indigenous relationship with nature, like reciprocity and caretaking. These principles move from a profound sense of unity and interconnectedness and put emphasis on the importance of giving back to nature. They offer an alternative perspective on sustainability that challenges the Western view. Such a view is still focused on maintaining the possibility of exploitation and embedded in a sense of separation from nature. The article discusses the need of creating a laboratory for sustainability, that is, a genuinely pluralist space in which multiple cultural expertise can interact and mutually enrich, yet maintaining their distinction and integrity. The main motivation of such an endevor should be to redefine the notion of sustainability in a more refined and thoughtful way: this is something vital for present and future generations.

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The Architectural Tradition of Ponnani, Kerala: A Historic Malabar Port Town

Journal of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism ◽

10.51303/jtbau.vi2.526 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 385-396

Author(s):

Swathy V Subramanian

Keyword(s):

Traditional Knowledge ◽

Arabian Sea ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Future Generations ◽

Historic Buildings ◽

Heritage Sites ◽

Adaptive Use ◽

Malabar Coast ◽

Architectural Tradition ◽

The Relationship

Ponnani, a historic port town located at the mouth of the Bharathappuzha River on the Arabian Sea, was a prominent trading center on the Malabar coast of Kerala, India, in the 15th and 16th centuries. It is one of Malabar’s few surviving historic towns, with its heritage sites intact along with its building types, historic streets and alleys, local culture, and traditions. But some of its historic buildings are on the verge of dereliction and need immediate attention. This study attempts to convey an understanding of Ponnani, with an analysis based on field visits and existing literature. The relationship between the region’s architecture and landscape and current threats to its heritage is explored. Its vanishing traditional knowledge systems and vernacular architectural types are also discussed, in what may serve as a reference for adaptive use by future generations.

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Governmentality, Curriculum Policies, and Citizenship Education

Handbook of Research on Education for Participative Citizenship and Global Prosperity - Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7110-0.ch012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 274-301

Author(s):

Jesús Romero ◽

Marta Estellés

Keyword(s):

Tacit Knowledge ◽

19Th Century ◽

International Organizations ◽

Citizenship Education ◽

Historical Perspective ◽

Frame Of Reference ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

European Institutions ◽

Curriculum Policies ◽

The 19Th Century

Citizenship education has received increasing attention in recent decades. After its inclusion in the agenda of international organizations and European institutions, many studies and academic debates have taken place. Despite their undoubted merits, a significant portion of that literature has not sufficiently discussed its starting presuppositions. It has often introduced citizenship education as if it were a novelty. That presentism has had a dangerous effect: the ease with which some ways of thinking and talking about citizenship education have been naturalized. Precisely for that reason, a historical perspective is essential: It helps us distance ourselves from our own frame of reference to question what is usually taken for granted by analyzing the changes in the tacit knowledge systems. In this chapter, the authors try to illustrate this by examining the main tendencies that have introduced citizenship education in national curricula during the two key cycles of socio-institutional restructuring experienced by Western countries since the end of the 19th century.

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Identifying knowledge management processes and practices used for decision-making and knowledge sharing in the modern San community

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa ◽

10.4102/td.v10i4.85 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 10 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Nisha Sewdass

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Knowledge Sharing ◽

Traditional Culture ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

Future Generations ◽

Management Processes ◽

Complex Knowledge ◽

New Generation ◽

Knowledge Management Processes

First People, such as the San community of Platfontein, are the holders of rich and complex knowledge systems that are very important for dispute resolution and decision- making. In order to ensure that these knowledge systems are maintained and sustained for future generations to benefit from, it is important to introduce and implement new approaches that can help to make intergenerational transmission of this valuable knowledge possible for the younger generation of San. While this community possesses a vast amount of unique knowledge, skills and competencies, these are at risk as the older generation of the San is ageing and passing on with very little of their knowledge and skills ever being transmitted to younger generations or documented and preserved for future generations to consult. Furthermore, the new generation of the San, which is referred to the modern San, are becoming more Westernised and are slowly losing their traditional culture and values. Hence, this study focuses on Knowledge Management processes and practices that are used in the modern San community for decision-making and knowledge sharing.

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