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South African Universities and Their Responsibility Towards Introducing the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Accredited Programmes: Where to From Here?
Abstract
The call to have Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) accredited programmes by universities is necessary to challenge existing Western Systems which have posed a threat to IKS in education. The aim of the study was to investigate the implementation of the IKS programmes by universities which were part of the 1996 indigenous technologies audit. The study used qualitative content analysis to extract information from a variety of sources, such as government documents, books, theses, and scholarly journals that are available on websites like Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, ResearchGate and university repositories. The findings of the study revealed that with assistance from government, there are universities who have successfully implemented IKS accredited programmes while others are still lacking behind since the 1996 audit. Therefore, the study recommends that universities which are yet to start this process need to benchmark and collaborate with those that are offering the IKS programmes. IKS postgraduates can also be sourced to be part of this process because they are equipped with expertise to implement these programmes.
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