ENCOURAGING THE DEVELOPMENT OF ‘INDIGENOUS’ KNOWLEDGE
June 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
UNESCO recognises a split between knowledge spread through standard higher education systems, based on the formal western model, and knowledge rooted in cultures, passed on locally down the generations. It calls this 'indigenous' knowledge in reference to peoples whose culture was usually downgraded in the past if they were colonised or subjected to strong foreign cultural influences, especially from Europe and north America. UNESCO rightly notes the great value that such traditional knowledge may offer in terms of medicines, food production, ...
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