Indigenous Knowledge and ICT: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Culturally Inclusive Education

Abstract

Indigenous knowledge is the basis for many remote, rural, and marginalized communities in society and as such, is an important component in the educational development of members within these communities. Due to many reasons, including colonization, a lack of understanding by hegemonic societies, and disparate knowledge systems (for example, orally based), there is a risk of this knowledge disappearing completely from many communities. Current literature in this realm is reviewed in this paper, with a focus on how ICT may aid in the gathering, storage, retrieval and inclusion of cultural knowledge in education. From this, some issues and gaps associated with current approaches are identified and an initial interdisciplinary model is proposed to help address these issues.I.