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Southern African Rurality in Higher Education
Knowledge creation cont.…
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Ideological persuasions need not supersede critique of
epistemological orientations we adopt.
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Piaget (1928) learning theory - learning occurs from ‘inside
out’
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Possible to be anti-western in ideology, but pro-Euro-
American in our mode of reasoning: ideological ‘face lift’ vs
a different style of analysis.
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We need to develop new and multiple reference points to
develop theory: the world is larger than just Euro-American
context.