By Mariana G. Hewson
ISBN-10: 9401792992
ISBN-13: 9789401792998
ISBN-10: 940179300X
ISBN-13: 9789401793001
The concentration of the ebook is on alternative ways of figuring out: the western medical approach (reductionist, dualistic and materialist) as opposed to the indigenous procedure (holistic, non-dualistic, and spiritual). It discusses either technological know-how and drugs within the context of the demanding situations skilled in introducing technology and drugs into Africa via imperialism, colonization, and globalization. It appears to be like at chosen indigenous African paradigms, the dominant western paradigms, and the practitioners that characterize those practices. The publication offers with questions touching on compatibility and incompatibility of alternative methods of figuring out and delves into epistemological stances, and the assumptions underlying those epistemologies. the amount investigates even if, and the way an individual can accommodate diversified epistemologies, and the character of such accommodations.
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In medicine, I hope to improve both medical teaching and learning (patients as well as medical students) in trans-cultural situations. My aim is to help trainees from non-western cultures know how to manage western knowledge and skills that differ substantively from their own, and for medical personnel such as doctors to better understand their foreign students and care for their foreign patients. com References Aikenhead, G. , & Ogawa, M. (2007). Indigenous knowledge and science revisited. Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2, 539–620.
The work by the Swiss psychologist Piaget (1972) suggested that the factors that influence children’s cognitive development were maturation level, social interactions, and culture. Piaget’s descriptions of children’s cognitive performance did apply to children in western technological societies. Later on it became increasingly 34 3 History of Science Teaching in Southern Africa evident that this was not true of Piagetian research in non-western societies (Hewson 1982). There is now strong evidence that schooling affects the development of aspects of logical thinking rather than the presence of universal operational structures as described by Piaget.
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