\'English only\'? Creating linguistic space for African indigenous knowledge systems in higher education

2005 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
G V W. Brand
JCSCORE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-80
Author(s):  
Stephanie J. Waterman

This chapter begins with a brief history of higher education’s role in assimilation, oppression, and removal of Indigenous people. A short literature review outlines the progression of higher education literature from deficit focused ideologies to current research that decolonizes and centers of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. “Sharing circles” as an Indigenous methodology is described. Centering Indigenous experiences in higher education and Indigenous knowledge systems focus on ways that Western forms of education can be used as tools to strengthen Native nations.


Author(s):  
Abhinav CHATURVEDI ◽  
Alf REHN

Innovation is one of the most popular concepts and desired phenomena of contemporary Western capitalism. As such, there is a perennial drive to capture said phenomena, and particularly to find new ways to incite and drive the same. In this text, we analyze one specific tactic through which this is done, namely by the culturally colonial appropriation of indigenous knowledge systems. By looking to how jugaad, a system   of   frugal   innovation   in   India,   has been   made   into   fodder   for   Western management literature, we argue for the need of a more developed innovation critique, e.g., by looking to postcolonial theory.


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