Early Childhood Care and Education in Ethiopia was revitalized after the initiatives of Education for All campaign were introduced with the intention of expanding access and improving educational opportunities to children living in disadvantaged communities. In the process of ex…
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Through a qualitative inquiry of four Indigenous elders, this study explores sacred purpose. Sacred purpose, within Indigenous wisdom and teachings, acknowledges the sacredness of purpose viewing it as an individual's reason for being here; it is the individual and collective re…
This thesis is a study of rural development resulting from ethnographic research carried out in the villages of Mediriya, Therrapahuwa and Walamatiara in Moneragala, Sri Lanka. As rural villages are being drawn into increasingly complex relations governed by forces of globalisat…
The Kurdish people are divided among four hostile Middle Eastern nation states--Turkey, Iraq, Iran, and Syria---in which they have experienced many forms of oppression, including forced assimilation, ethnic cleansing, and even genocide. Despite this oppression, the Kurds have be…
Theorists of higher education such as Friere. Asante and Dei have emphasized that colonizing Eurocentric knowledge admits of only one view of the world, judging all others as epistemologically invalid. These authors have proposed ways in which this dominant view of higher educat…
This study explores the phenomenon of indigenous knowledge within Ethiopia against a background of increasing concern for the sustainability of natural resources. A review of the indigenous knowledge, information systems and innovation studies literature finds little in the way …
Indigenous farming communities in Indonesia and around the world have probably lived the way they always have: relying on the knowledge and skills they learned from their parents and neighbors. Indigenous communities are not static; they include inventors and innovators who brin…
This study began focused on the use of traditional knowledge in promoting sustainable development in crisis conditions. Presented the question: How have successful community- level sustainable development efforts undertaken under crisis conditions drawn upon indigenous knowledge…
This thesis explores the attempts by international law to recognize and protect the knowledge of indigenous and local communities. In conducting this inquiry, the thesis focuses on traditional medicine and the central role played by plant biodiversity in this aspect of local kno…
Aridland springs are among the most threatened ecosystems in the world (Stevens & Meretsky 2008). Vital to desert ecologies and Indigenous cultures, these complex and individualistic ecosystems have layered histories. To inform management in the changing landscape of Desert Nati…
It is well known that by the turn of the century, male photographers, such as Edward S. Curtis were taking documentary photography of what they considered a vanishing race. However, this is only part of the story of Indigenous photography. White women also participated in photog…
South Africa has a complex history of contested places and knowledges. Through colonization and apartheid, places of importance were taken from the indigenous people and the education system aimed to colonize their minds. These issues of place and knowledge tend to be studied se…
This paper will share the story of J. W. K. Kaualilinoe, a writer of the Hawaiian language newspapers. These newspapers continue to be a focal point of study as they fuel cultural resurgence, language revitalization, and Hawaiian identity. Newspaper columns have become repositor…
The life of Joshua Gordon and his intellectual product, Witchcraft Book (1784) gives access to the backcountry of South Carolina. Witchcraft Book is exemplary of syncretism in the Atlantic world, influenced by multiple European traditions, understandings of science in the early …
Owen Sound Bay, which is located within the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation (SON), is contaminated as a result of historical industrial and shipping activity. Gross contamination of the sediments in the inner part of the Bay (i.e., Owen Sound Harbour) include…