'I Am of Popper', 'I Am of Asante': The Polemics of Scholarship in South Africa

Autor/in	Nyawasha, Tawanda Sydesky
Titel	'I Am of Popper', 'I Am of Asante': The Polemics of Scholarship in South Africa
Quelle	In: Studies in Philosophy and Education, 39 (2020) 4, S.415-428 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nyawasha, Tawanda Sydesky)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-3746
DOI	10.1007/s11217-019-09688-7
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Epistemology; World Views; Scholarship; Theories; Innovation; Methods; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Erkenntnistheorie; World view; Weltanschauung; Scholarships; Stipendium; Theory; Theorie; Method; Methode; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	In this article, I examine the state of knowledge construction within the South African academe. This, I do by looking at how issues of epistemology and ontology are prioritised or negated in the social construction of knowledge. Focusing on what I have called 'the problem of perspectives', I show how 'epistemological narcissism' has often limited the scope of methodological and theoretical innovativeness. I argue that by relying on a set of certain theories that scholars have known and used over the years, and dismissing those that are considered 'foreign' (or non-African), the exercise of knowledge construction has become largely polemical. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01