scholarly journals Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa

2017 ◽  
pp. 116-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehluli Masuku
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Information Science ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Intersection

Since around the 1980s, the aspect of indigenous knowledge (IK) has attracted the attention of a number of experts, including culturists, politicians and information scientists. This has seen the mushrooming of literature on the subject matter from the afore-mentioned practitioners and specialists, with each discipline witnessing a certain “discourse”. This has also witnessed almost everyone in these disciplines glorifying African IK. Against this background, this chapter discusses the IK discourses in Africa, highlighting some of the significant trends and relationships among practitioners and scholars in the fields of culture, politics and information science that are driven by shared philosophies of IK. This paper is theoretical in nature and draws from the literature on IK to explain and demonstrate what the author calls the “IK discourses and “IK frenzy”, and explains the point of intersection by culturists, politicians and information science practitioners.

Indigenous Knowledge Discourses in Africa

2020 ◽  
pp. 459-479
Author(s):  
Mehluli Masuku
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Information Science ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Point Of Intersection

Since around the 1980s, the aspect of indigenous knowledge (IK) has attracted the attention of a number of experts, including culturists, politicians and information scientists. This has seen the mushrooming of literature on the subject matter from the afore-mentioned practitioners and specialists, with each discipline witnessing a certain “discourse”. This has also witnessed almost everyone in these disciplines glorifying African IK. Against this background, this chapter discusses the IK discourses in Africa, highlighting some of the significant trends and relationships among practitioners and scholars in the fields of culture, politics and information science that are driven by shared philosophies of IK. This paper is theoretical in nature and draws from the literature on IK to explain and demonstrate what the author calls the “IK discourses and “IK frenzy”, and explains the point of intersection by culturists, politicians and information science practitioners.

scholarly journals “Regime” e “Informação”: a aproximação de dois conceitos e suas aplicações na Ciência da Informação | "Regime" and "Information": the dialogue between two concepts and their application in the Information Science.

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Brasil Magnani ◽  
Marta Macedo Kerr Pinheiro
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Information Policy ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Policy Regime ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Innovative Idea ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
Information Regime

Resumo O artigo discute a interlocução dos conceitos de “regime” e “informação” e sua aplicação na Ciência da Informação. Toma como base a noção de regime de informação apresentada por Frohmann, em artigos chaves da área de CI, publicados em 1994 e 1995, e a idéia inovadora defendida por Braman em 2004, sobre a formação de um  regime global de política de informação. Sem imergir no acervo teórico que envolve ambos os conceitos de “regime” e de “informação”, esse trabalho explora a visão de Frohmann e Braman, na articulação desses dois termos, complementada por outros autores interessados na temática e apresenta exemplos da aplicabilidade dessas visões, na CI.  Pela falta de consenso na determinação do objeto de estudo da disciplina e amplitude de aplicações do conceito de regime de informação, esse artigo visa consolidar e validar esse conceito, que segundo Frohmann e Braman, parece ser mais pertinente à compreensão da política de informação nos dias atuais. Palavras-chave regime de informação; política de informação; regime global de política de informação. Abstract The article works on the dialogue between "regime" and "information" and its application in Information Science. It is supported by the notion of information regime presented in Frohmann´s key articles in the area of Information Science, published in 1994 and 1995, and on the innovative idea advocated by Braman, in 2004, of the formation of a global information policy regime. With no intention of going in depth, in the collection that involves both theoretical concepts of "regime" and "information", this work explores the vision of Frohmann and Braman of these two terms, supplemented by others interested in the subject, and provides examples of the applicability of these views, in the Information Science. For lack of consensus in determining the subject matter of the discipline and breadth of applications of the concept of information regime, the reflection proposed in this article aims to consolidate and validate this concept, which according Frohmann and Braman seems to be  relevant to understanding information policy, currently. Keywords information regime; information policy; the global information policy regime.

scholarly journals The Landscapes of Sustainability in the Library and Information Science: Systematic Literature Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Anna Małgorzata Kamińska ◽  
Łukasz Opaliński ◽  
Łukasz Wyciślik
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Environmental

In times of real threats to the continuity of the human civilization resulting from environmental degradation, depletion of natural resources, overpopulation, and other adverse factors, the issue of sustainable development is the subject of interest of many scientific disciplines. As a leading objective of this paper, the authors take up the topic of sustainable development seen through the lenses of the library and information science, which is considered with special attention paid to its economic, social, environmental, and cultural dimensions. In addition to reviewing the most important literature, the authors also explore the subject matter from a quantitative perspective. As a result of the research, the authors identify the key areas that affect libraries as cultural and scientific institutions, in which work related to the sustainability concept is actively carried out. Quantitative research allowed to determine the proportions of efforts made by scientists within the previously selected areas, and to outline trends observed within those areas—that is, to identify which areas have recently been gaining importance, and which may have ceased to be exploited. The authors hope that the research results not only shed light on the landscape of world science in the subject matter, but above all, that they support contemporary researches of these fields by identifying potentially the most important works influencing the shape of particular research areas, and the identification of current trends, which are present within the mentioned areas as well. Further research directions, which are potentially worth undertaking, are also emphasized.

Information Science and Information Systems: Converging or Diverging?

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira A Monarch
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Word Analysis ◽  
The Subject

Recent studies have claimed a disconnect between the disciplines of information science and information systems even though, prima facie, there seems to be considerable overlap or potential overlap in their respective subject matter. The present study will target representative journals in the areas of information science and information systems and examine in more detail the overlap or lack of overlap between the two fields as reflected in the co-word analysis of the titles and abstracts of these journal articles. That the subject matters of the two fields can be combined in a discipline will be shown by a similar analysis of a third field, medical informatics, a new discipline in it its own right and a seeming subject matter hybrid of information science and information systems.

Words

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1320-1327
Author(s):  
Colbert Searles
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Assistant Professor ◽  
The Subject

THE germ of that which follows came into being many years ago in the days of my youth as a university instructor and assistant professor. It was generated by the then quite outspoken attitude of colleagues in the “exact sciences”; the sciences of which the subject-matter can be exactly weighed and measured and the force of its movements mathematically demonstrated. They assured us that the study of languages and literature had little or nothing scientific about it because: “It had no domain of concrete fact in which to work.” Ergo, the scientific spirit was theirs by a stroke of “efficacious grace” as it were. Ours was at best only a kind of “sufficient grace,” pleasant and even necessary to have, but which could, by no means ensure a reception among the elected.

The Taxonomic Structuring of Medical Information and its Usefulness in this Form

1965 ◽  
Vol 04 (03) ◽  
pp. 112-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Zinsser
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Central Core ◽  
Diagnostic Strategy ◽  
Programmed Instruction ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Subject

An outline has been presented in historical fashion of the steps devised to organize the central core of medical information allowing the subject matter, the patient, to define the nature and the progression of the diseases from which he suffers, with and without therapy; and approaches have been made to organize this information in such fashion as to align the definitions in orderly fashion to teach both diagnostic strategy and the content of the diseases by programmed instruction.

العربية المقاربة المقاصديّة في ردّ ابن فودي على القادح في جلستهم الدعويّة

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alawiye Abdulmumin Abdurrazzaq ◽  
Ahmad Wifaq Mokhtar ◽  
Abdul Manan Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Analytical Methods ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Subject

This article is aimed to examine the extent of the application of Islamic legal objectives by Sheikh Abdullah bn Fudi in his rejoinder against one of their contemporary scholars who accused them of being over-liberal about the religion. He claimed that there has been a careless intermingling of men and women in the preaching and counselling gathering they used to hold, under the leadership of Sheikh Uthman bn Fudi (the Islamic reformer of the nineteenth century in Nigeria and West Africa). Thus, in this study, the researchers seek to answer the following interrogations: who was Abdullah bn Fudi? who was their critic? what was the subject matter of the criticism? How did the rebutter get equipped with some guidelines of higher objectives of Sharĩʻah in his rejoinder to the critic? To this end, this study had tackled the questions afore-stated by using inductive, descriptive and analytical methods to identify the personalities involved, define and analyze some concepts and matters considered as the hub of the study.

HUBUNGAN PROFESIONALISME PENDIDIK TK DENGAN KINERJA PENDIDIK DI TK RAYON IV KOTA DUMAI

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 660
Author(s):  
Ranirizal Ranirizal
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Teacher Performance ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Performance Development ◽  
Kindergarten Educators ◽  
Academic Qualifications

Performance is the performance shown by educators, both in quality and quantity in carrying out their duties in accordance with the responsibilities given to them professionally. Educator performance development is a very decisive factor in the success of the education and learning process. In fact, in Kindergarten Rayon IV, Dumai City, there is still a low level of competency standards possessed by educators. The intended competency standard is from the standard academic qualifications and four competencies that must be possessed by a kindergarten educator, namely pedagogic, professional, social and personality competencies. This is evidenced by educators not yet mastering learning material with the maximum known when the learning process educators are not able to explain well the subject matter, and educators have not shown maximum performance in carrying out their duties and functions. The purpose of this study was to see whether there was an influence on teacher professionalism on teacher performance in Dumai IV Rayon Kindergarten. The results of the study prove that there is a significant relationship between the professionalism of Kindergarten educators and the performance of educators in Kindergarten Rayon IV, Dumai City. This is evidenced by the value of Sig (2-tailed) professionalism on educator's performance of 0,000, so the calculation shows 0,000 <0.05. This means that Ha is accepted, that is, there is a significant relationship between the professionalism of Kindergarten educators and the Performance of Educators in Kindergarten Rayon IV, Dumai City.

Justine Pila, The Subject Matter of Intellectual Property

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-144
Author(s):  
Patrick Masiyakurima
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
The Subject
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