TY - JOUR
T1 - Schooling and Local Knowledge for Collecting Wild Honey in South India: Balancing Multifaceted Educations?
AU - Demps, Kathryn
AU - Dougherty, Jennifer
AU - Mg, Jenukalla
AU - Zorondo-Rodríguez, Francisco
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - García, Claude
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - © 2015 by the American Anthropological Association. For indigenous populations, schooling and local knowledge systems may be at odds. Understanding indigenous learning systems can help mitigate conflicts between acquisition of local ecological knowledge and academic knowledge. Among boys and men of the Jenu Kuruba of South India, we compare levels of schooling and local knowledge related to wild honey collection, a central domain of male local ecological knowledge. For boys, school attendance, but not performance, negatively correlates with local knowledge related to honey collecting. Men's local knowledge for this activity negatively correlates with years of schooling, but their practical skills either neutrally or slightly positively associate with schooling. Different learning patterns between domains of knowledge can explain variation in trends of local knowledge loss. Findings suggest that schooling mostly affects knowledge of activities that are not classroom-adaptable that people perform during school hours.
AB - © 2015 by the American Anthropological Association. For indigenous populations, schooling and local knowledge systems may be at odds. Understanding indigenous learning systems can help mitigate conflicts between acquisition of local ecological knowledge and academic knowledge. Among boys and men of the Jenu Kuruba of South India, we compare levels of schooling and local knowledge related to wild honey collection, a central domain of male local ecological knowledge. For boys, school attendance, but not performance, negatively correlates with local knowledge related to honey collecting. Men's local knowledge for this activity negatively correlates with years of schooling, but their practical skills either neutrally or slightly positively associate with schooling. Different learning patterns between domains of knowledge can explain variation in trends of local knowledge loss. Findings suggest that schooling mostly affects knowledge of activities that are not classroom-adaptable that people perform during school hours.
KW - Contextualized learning
KW - Culturally responsive education
KW - India
KW - Local ecological knowledge
KW - Trade-offs
U2 - 10.1111/cuag.12045
DO - 10.1111/cuag.12045
M3 - Article
VL - 37
SP - 28
EP - 37
JO - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
JF - Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment
SN - 2153-9553
IS - 1
ER -