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SUMMARY:Indigenous Knowledge Claims - Associate Professor Elizabeth Rata\,
  Faculty of Education\, The University of Auckland
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CONTACT:Susannah Lacon
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation I examine the claims made for the inclusi
 on of indigenous knowledge into New Zealand universities. My focus is on t
 he fundamental contradiction at the core of indigenous knowledge. The crea
 tion of disciplinary knowledge with its own concepts\, content\, procedure
 s\, and institutions requires that knowledge be independent from the socia
 l location within which it emerged. This means separating the ‘knower’
  from the knowledge. But indigenous knowledge\, as I will show in a number
  of examples\, is subject to criteria that maintains the link between the 
 knowledge ‘producer’ and the ‘product’. Along with analysing that 
 criteria I ask: What are its consequences of including into the university
  a type of knowledge that is neither universal\, public\, nor objective?
LOCATION:Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\
 , Cambridge\, room 2S4
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