Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Higher Education

About the Authors. Preface: contextualising the dialogue (V.L. Masemann). A dialogue between the local and the global (Z. Ma Rhea, B. Teasdale). The indigenisation of trainee teachers in Papua New Guinea (M.A. Mel). Universities and curriculum localisation in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia (E. Kopong, B. Teasdale). Towards a new pedagogy: pacific cultures in higher education (K.H. Thaman). Aboriginal philosophy in Australian higher education: its own place in its own time (M. Slade, D. Morgan). New approaches to university research in indigenous settings: an example from Papua New Guinea (Yasuko Nagai). Indigenous rights and higher education in Australia: 'not just black and white' (P. Gale). Higher education as a collective resource for the Harakmbut of Amazonian Peru (S. Aikman). Local knowledges in Vietnamese higher education: a case study of two teacher education programs (G. Ovington). Transforming African universities using indigenous perspectives and local experience (B. Brock-Utne). Dominant and subjugated knowledges in Indian higher education: a preliminary analysis (P. Ninnes et al.). The Cuban University and educational outreach: Cuba's contribution to post-colonial development (A. Hickling Hudson). Contemporary knowledge production and reproduction in Thai universities: processes of adaptive balancing (Z. Ma Rhea). Bibliography. Index.