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The Importance of Integrating Indigenous Knowledge Systems in South Africa's Basic Education: Perspectives From Indigenous Scholars
Abstract
Indigenous knowledge Systems (IKS) are practices, and beliefs of indigenous communities which include Indigenous people's abilities, experiences, and insights that are used to sustain their livelihoods. Such knowledge systems are important to be integrated in education because students need a culturally responsive education that relates to their cultural background However, the South African Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement (CAPS), which is taught in basic education, does not give much emphasis on IKS and implementation mechanisms that it needs. Instead, IKS are marginalized and ignored in education, while Western Knowledge Systems are given priority in the classroom. The study applies a scoping literature review to investigate how IKS can be integrated into the CAPS with a focus on specific subjects. The indigenous standpoint theory and constructivist theory are applied in the study to demonstrate that there is no single objective world that all learners aim to know and understand. Instead, the learners make meaning of the world through their own cultural experiences.
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