Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

Wilson, who is Opaskwayak Cree,
Shawn
what an Indigenous research
outlines
looks like from the perspective of
paradigm
knowledge keepers and seekers.
Indigenous
proposal centres relationships and the
His
that Indigenous knowledge
perspective
deeply relational. Honouring these
is
means that researchers must
relationships
accountable for choices in how they
be
conduct and communicate
conceptualize,
research. Follow the link to a video that
their
this idea of research as a relational
explores
terms: Shawn
Search
Decolonizing
Wilson
can rational
methodologies:
be a basis for
research
relationships
renewed
YouTube
is the role of Oral Tradition in enabling
What
to be handed down through
knowledge
To what extent is Oral Tradition
generations?
in preserving knowledge in Indigenous
effective
Wall Kimmerer, of Citizen Potowatomi Nation and author of Braiding Sweetgrass, writes
Robin
the role of language in Indigenous knowledge with a study of Potawatomi, language. “The
about
is the heart of our culture”, explains one of Kimmerer’s Elders, “it holds our thoughts,
language
way of seeing the world. It’s too beautiful for English to explain” (2014). The following is an
our
from Kimmerer’s chapter “Learning the grammar of animacy”, in which she asserts that
extract
attempting to understand the world, something is lost in the language of science, “the same
in
first taste of the missing language was the word Puhpowee on my tongue. Puhpowee …
“My
as ‘the force which causes mushrooms to push up from the earth overnight.’ As
translates
biologist, I was stunned that such a word existed. In all its technical vocabulary, Western
a
has no such term, no words to hold this mystery. You’d think that biologists, of all
science
would have words for life. But in scientific language our terminology is used to
people,
the boundaries of our knowing. What lies beyond our grasp remains unnamed. …
define
is a noun-based language, somehow appropriate to a culture so obsessed with things.
English
30 percent of English words are verbs, but in Potawatomi that proportion is 70percent.
Only
5III. Methods and tools
and community activity.
III.2 The role of language
societies?
Figure 5.3 Sculpture of a manaschi, a Kyrgyz storyteller
specialized in narrating the “epic of Manas”
Case study
The “grammar of animacy”
something that swells around youand in you when you listen to the world”(2014).
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