INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS

Diwu, C. & Ogunniyi, M.B. (2011) Realising a science and indigenous knowledge systems curriculum: a case study of a dialogical argumentation-based teaching approach. (Paper presented at the 3rd International Conference on Science and IKS, University of the Western Cape, 25-29 October).

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Hart, T., Vorster, I. & Jansen van Rensburg, W. (2009) Indigenous knowledge and African vegatables. In: National Research Directory. Johannesburg: Rainbow South Africa. 209-214.

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) is the unique, traditional, local knowledge existing within and developed around specific conditions of women and men indigenous to a particular geographic area. In some instances external or scientific knowledge is combined with indigenous knowledge during the innovation process. Consequently indigenous knowledge is dynamic and continually evolves and changes as it d...

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Hart, T. & Vorster, H.J. (eds). (2007) African indigenous knowledge systems in agricultural production: a consultative report for Department of Science and Technology, National Indigenous Knowledge Sytems Office (NIKSO), Pretoria, South Africa. Pretoria: Department of Science and Technology (DST).

Hart, T. & Vorster, I. (2006) Indigenous knowledge on the South African landscape. (Urban, Rural and Economic Development Research Programme, Occasional Paper 1). Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Aligned to the principle that development needs to start with what people know and build on their knowledge and experiences, the authors of this paper provide some examples of how important indigenous or local knowledge is to its users, different ways in which they use this knowledge, and the potential that indigenous knowledge has in some areas of agricultural development. The paper looks ...

Hart, T. & Mouton, J. (2005) Indigenous knowledge and its relevance for agriculture: a case study in Uganda. Indilinga-African journal of indigenous knowledge systems. 4(1):249-263.

Hart, T.G.B. (2007) Local knowledge and agricultural applications: lessons from a Ugandan parish. South African Journal of Agricultural Extension. 36:229-248.

A multidisciplinary team of agricultural researchers worked with residents of a rural parish in south-western Uganda to generate local knowledge about the diverse use of plants identified as African vegetables. While some were sold at the commercial fresh produce market in Kampala most were cultivated for household consumption. Some plants had properties which, when planted in specific ways, ...

James, W. & Wilson, L. (eds). (2002) The architect and the scaffold: evolution and education in South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Publishers.

We have caught a glimpse of an instruction book previously known only to God, a geneticist said of the most recent development in the mapping of the human genetic code. Having explored and mapped our planet's land masses, vast oceans and the space surrounding it, science is turning inward to the challenging and controversial mapping of the human genome, a collection of genes forming DNA. Each o...

Janse van Rensburg, E., Hattingh, J. & O'Donoghue, R. (eds). (2002) Environmental education, ethics and action in southern Africa. Pretoria: Human Sciences Research Council.

Environmental practitioners open a window onto environmental challenges in diverse African contexts. Non-specialists and scholars can see how Malawian officials and community leaders, new to multi-level governance, take up the challenge of environmental management in villages and districts; Ugandan small-scale farmers in partnership with NGOs try to produce sustainably for household and interna...

Magwaza, T. & Sithole, M.P. (2006) "This is our history": Ngome women constructing a different history. In Freedom sown in blood: memories of the Impi Yamaghanda: an indigenous knowledge systems perspective. Magwaza, T., Seleti, Y. & Sithole, M.P. (eds). Thohoyandou: Ditlou Publishers. 112-140.

Magwaza, T., Seleti, Y. & Sithole, M.P. (eds). (2006) Freedom sown in blood: memories of the Impi Yamakhanda: an indigenous knowledge systems perspective. Thohoyandou: Ditlou Publishers.

Moos, A., Struwig, J. & Roberts, B. (2010) Local is lekker: indigenous knowledge should be encouraged. HSRC Review. 8(4):10-11.

Indigenous knowledge systems (IKS) have an important contribution to make to socioeconomic growth and sustainable development and should be promoted and encouraged, say AZIZA MOOS, JARE STRUWIG and BEN ROBERTS. But how aware are people of IKS, and should policies be implemented to foster awareness in South Africa?

Ndinda, C. (2011) Indigenous knowledge to preserve and protect. HSRC Review. 9(2):14-15.

The African saying, 'When an old person dies, a library burns down' epitomises the nature of indigenous knowledge, handed down orally from generation to generation and preserved in 'human databases'. CATHERINE NDINDA and colleagues examine approaches that have been used elsewhere to protect, preserve and promote indigenous knowledge and look at the implications for policy in South Africa.

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (2001) Indigenous knowledge systems and academic institutions in South Africa. Perspectives in education. 19(1):73-85.

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (1999) Rural people first: challenges for the 21st century: opening address to the Free State Sedimosang Rural Development Initiative. (Free State Sedimosang Rural Development Initiative, Bloemfontein 29-31 March 1999).

Focuses on the challenge of mobilizing people's knowledge for purposeful economic and social development. Argues that one way to achieve this is to support the development of participatory action research.

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Odora-Hoppers, C.A. & Moikangoa, N. (1999) Strategies for effecting engagement on IKS (indigenous knowledge systems). (Submission to the national steering committee on IKS).

Recommends a rapid assessment of sectoral policies to establish strategies for effecting engagement on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS).

Odora-Hoppers, C.A. (1998) Recovering the basis for effective transformation and development of South Africa. (Submitted to the chairman of the Portfolio Committee on ACST).

Emphasizes the importance of the combined strength and authenticity of the indigenous knowledge's and technologies on the one hand, and the power of modern industrial knowledge's and systems on the other.

Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (2009) Introduction. In: Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang. 1-10.

Pithouse, K., Mitchell, C. & Moletsane, R. (eds). (2009) Making connections: self-study & social action. (Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education; v. 357). New York: Peter Lang.

How might study of the self illuminate and inspire social action? Making Connections: Self-Study & Social Action presents a trans-disciplinary, trans-cultural discussion of the dynamic interplay between self-study and our social world. Building on work done in the education field, the essays in the four themed sections of this edited volume provide diverse perspectives on the social relevance o...

Simwaka, A., Peltzer, K. & Maluwa-Banda, D. (2007) Indigenous healing practices in Malawi. Journal of Psychology in Africa. 17(1):155-162.

One of the most important areas of African culture in which the significant presence of traditional beliefs can be seen is through sickness and healing. In many traditional cultures, illness is thought to be caused by psychological conflicts or disturbed social relations that create a disequilibrium expressed in the form of physical or mental problems. In Malawi, traditional healing has been ...

Sithole, M.P. & Zondi, N. (2006) Genealogies of the Royal amaZondi of Ngome. In Freedom sown in blood: memories of the Impi Yamaghanda: an indigenous knowledge systems perspective. Magwaza, T., Seleti, Y. & Sithole, M.P. (eds). Thohoyandou: Ditlou Publishers. 27-39.

Sithole, M.P. (2006) Rebellion or uprising?: a reinterpretation of Impi Yamakhanda. In Freedom sown in blood: memories of the Impi Yamaghanda: an indigenous knowledge systems perspective. Magwaza, T., Seleti, Y. & Sithole, M.P. (eds). Thohoyandou: Ditlou Publishers. 141-156.