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Can I read African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences: Journeys into the Past and Present (Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change) on EtoBox?

African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences: Journeys into the Past and Present (Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change) by Gloria Emeagwali, Edward Shizha (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences: Journeys into the Past and Present (Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change) about?

This book is an intellectual journey into epistemology, pedagogy, physics, architecture, medicine and metallurgy. The focus is on various dimensions of African Indigenous Knowledge (AIK) with an emphasis on the sciences, an area that has been neglected in AIK discourse. The authors provide diverse views and perspectives on African indigenous scientific and technological knowledge that can benefit a wide spectrum of academics, scholars, students, development agents, and policy makers, in both governmental and non-governmental organizations, and enable critical and alternative analyses and possibilities for understanding science and technology in an African historical and contemporary context.

Who reads African Indigenous Knowledge and the Sciences: Journeys into the Past and Present (Anti-colonial Educational Perspectives for Transformative Change)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Gloria Emeagwali, Edward Shizha (eds.)
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Published
2016
Language
EN
ISBN
9789463005159
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Technology, Psychology

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