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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"knowledge system"”.
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Participatory evaluation of the Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledge System at the University of Venda
The Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledge Systems qualification was introduced, in University of Venda, in 2014 as one of the de-colonizing programs to ensure that, South African indigenous knowledge systems is preserved and transferred to younger generations through Higher Education’s teaching and …
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The role of university-business interaction in knowledge system and its effect on growth
Knowledge is recognised as the driver of productivity and economic growth, and its role is still being developed. The development of growth theory results in the focus of knowledge shifting from knowledge investment to knowledge spillover. In the meantime, links between knowledge actors are the …
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The Academic Library in Society’s Knowledge System : a Case Study of Tshwane University of Technology
… in terms of the organization and storage of knowledge, as well as its distribution and access. This makes them important role players in South Africa’s broader library and information services ecosystem. As a result, academic libraries do not operate in a vacuum. As part of the broader …
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Examining South Africa 's process of cultural transformation : interrogating the Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) policy framework
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 91-104).
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A Systems-Based Methodology for the Construction and Representation of Organizational Knowledge Systems
… of this research was to develop and apply a systems-based, analysis methodology which constructs and represents an organization's knowledge system. The research inquiry was guided by four questions: (1) “what is an organizational knowledge system?” (2) “how can it be made explicit?” (3) “does …
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Intensional reasoning about knowledge
… in Artificial Intelligence, the need for formal systems that facilitate a study and a simulation of a machine cognition has become an inevitability. This paper explores and developes the foundations of a formal system for propositional reasoning about knowledge. The semantics of every meaningful …
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Activation, Automacity, and Mental Health Implications of Colonial Mentality
… the existence of a CM-consistent cultural knowledge system using explicit primes; Study 2 investigated whether CM may be activated outside of awareness, intention, or control using a more indirect and implicit priming methodology---a lexical decision priming task; and Study 3 tested the …
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The transmission and transformation of traditional building crafts : an apprentice-style ethnography with drystone wallers in Italy
… that are necessary for the safeguarding of this knowledge system. The first one regards the constitutive elements of this craft, and it is an analysis of both explicit and practical knowledge that are considered the fundamental features of this art. In this sense, the main objective is to test …
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An exploration of the use of social media as a vehicle to enculturate Vhavenda youth in the Vhembe District, Limpopo Province of South Africa
… to enculturate youth with the indigenous knowledge system (IKS). IKS mainly relies on information being passed on by word-of-mouth from adults; hence, it requires direct interactions between the older and younger generations. Social media have taken over the socialisation role played by …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… the use of the material body as a subaltern knowledge system is read as an act of decolonial resistance. The analysis focuses on two English-language novels by 20th-century female authors originally from the Caribbean: the 1934 novel Voyage in the Dark by the British author Jean Rhys, born in …
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Fractured pedagogy: the design and implementation fault line in architectural knowledge - a conceptual and historical analysis
There appears to be a gap in architectural knowledge between design theory and implementation practice which is difficult to bridge in teaching, learning and work. As evidence of the existence of this gap two sources of data are contrasted: exhibition catalogues which convey what individual …
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A decolonial study of indigenous teaching and learning methods of knowledge transfer in Gabon’s rural communities
… a set of epistemological and ontological systems that can be traced back to the 15th century. Europeans, with their colonising mission, wrongly presumed that African indigenous people were ignorant and uneducated. Thus, Gabon remains one of the sub-Saharan countries where access to …
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Towards heuristic systems methods for generating new knowledge in post-industrial business
… aspects of post-modern philosophy into systems methods that support new knowledge creation in post-industrial business. The author has developed a three-part model of the organization as a knowledge system: The first component is the formative system, which enables or regulates what can …
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Agile development of diagnostic knowledge systems
The success of diagnostic knowledge systems has been proved over the last decades. Nowadays, intelligent systems are embedded in machines within various domains or are used in interaction with a user for solving problems. However, although such systems have been applied very successfully the …
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An emergent model of the teaching of iingoma zamagqirha based on three case studies in the Western Cape, South Africa
… to introduce learners to the indigenous knowledge systems of the amaXhosa of South Africa. It is also a musical art which is performed in both sacred and secular environments. As such iingoma zamagqirha could be suitable for classroom teaching in South African schools and the oral methods …
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Ebonic Bodies in Motion: Discerning the Metaphysical Emergence of African American Movement Language
… Language centers Black women in Brooklyn, their knowledge systems, and coins the term African American movement language (AAML). Brooklyn is a cultural hub that contributes to the global landscape of dance, fashion, and music, andBlack women in Brooklyn have been creators of culture and have …
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Mourning and melancholy: a comparative study on Christopher Okigbo and Dambudzo Marechera
… they have to challenge is the Western knowledge system which infiltrated into mindsets through colonial dominion. Thus, Okigbo and Marechera enact a certain type of positionality strategy to claim their own poetic utterance. By invoking natural and spiritual images the poets demonstrate …
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Bioprospecting of indigeneous species berchemia discolor and its socio-economic prospects in Vhembe District Municipality
… of Berchemia discolor using indigenous knowledge system, to investigate the benefits that can be derived from bioprospecting Berchemia discolor, to determine the challenges of utilizing Berchemia discolor species and to develop feasible strategies for improving the commercialization …
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Knowing fish: a cultural case study and portrait of resource understandings in Caspian Eurasia
… to certain interpretations of the natural world, knowledge traditions, and a development history specific to western societies. It did so by recording resource meaning-making processes within Caspian cultural life, and how these were reflected in modernized aquaculture production in Azerbaijan, …
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Integrating Decolonization and Africanization into the Curriculum Transformation Activities of South African Universities
Decolonization and Africanization as indigenous knowledge systems have long been marginalized and under-reported within the education pedagogical space. The paper explores the prospects of integrating decolonization and Africanization into South African universities through curriculum …
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