Module 3

• Indigenous knowledge


  It is embedded in the daily life experiences of young children as they grow up. They live and grow in a society where the members of the community prominently practice indigenous knowledge
• Indigenous Science


  It is part of the indigenous knowledge system practiced by different groups of people and early civilizations
• Indigenous beliefs


  It also develop desirable values that are relevant or consistent to scientific attitudes as identified by Johnston (2000), namely: (1) motivating attitudes: (2) cooperating attitudes, (3) practical attitudes, and (4) reflective attitudes.
• Pawilen (2005)


   explained that indigenous science knowledge has developed diverse structures and contents through the interplay between the society and the environment
• Kuhn (1962)


  developmental stages of most sciences are characterized by continual competition between a number of distinct views of nature, each partially derived from, and all roughly compatible with the dictates of scientific observation and method.
• Sibisi (2004)


  pointed out that indigenous science provides the basics of astronomy, pharmacology, food technology, or metallurgy, which were derived from traditional knowledge and practices
• Pawilen (2006)


  developed a simple framework for understanding indigenous science. Accordingly. indigenous science is composed of traditional knowledge that uses science process skills and guided by community values and culture.