Cultural Variance, Critical Thinking, and Indigenous Knowledges: Exploring a Both-Ways Approach
Year: 2015
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Critical thinking is generally considered to be one of the most crucial attributes in the Western processes of knowledge assemblage and creation and is therefore carefully nurtured in traditional higher education institutions. In Western knowledge systems, critical thinking is considered to drive not only knowledge production but also innovation and development, while it is intimately linked to a colonial history in which “progress” has been the key focus and driving force. Not coincidentally then the university as a “research and development” institution has played a central role in this colonial history. From an Indigenous point of view, such “progress” has been viewed with ambivalent feelings at best, but more often with suspicion and skepticism for good reasons (Tuhiwai Smith 1999). These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Source: Palgrave Macmillan US eBooks
Authors: Sharon K. Chirgwin, Henk Huijser
Language: English
Subfield: Health
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2198217396