Call for Chapters: Enabling Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Action Research and Action Learning

Editors

Tomé Awshar Mapotse, University of South Africa, South Africa
Emmanuel N. A. Tetteh, Saybrook University, USA & Walden University, USA & Mercy University, USA
Tsebo Kgoto Matsekoleng, North-West University, South Africa

Call for Chapters

Proposals Submission Deadline: June 16, 2024
Full Chapters Due: September 30, 2024
Submission Date: September 30, 2024

Introduction

The book to be edited: Enabling Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) in Action Research (AR) and Action Learning (AL) is proposed based on the fact that AR and AL concepts are both oriented in the practices of action processes and pragmatic research modalities. Scholars have been conducting research ever since time immemorial but yet relatively few research practitioners are close to respond to the old Marxist question: "how can we change the world to become a better place for human beings?" This book aims at providing Action Research (AR) and Action Learning (AL) researchers with a practical Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) which is innovative and creative for progressive transformative and sustainable learning environments' towards answering the old global question.

It should further be noted that both AR and AL concepts are constructive, innovative, and creative quality way to solve problems and to develop professionally while recognising human beings irrespective of their status in the society, forming relationships and regular reflections.

The IKS paradigm maintain that, with such a conscious research, researchers can contribute towards the excavation, preservation, and knowledge generation of indigenous peoples. Taking lessons from the past in order for a individuals and communities to live a meaningful and beneficial life. The book impact on the AR and AL research practitioners is that the practitioners are advised, among other things, to investigate and draw attention to IKS continuing practices from the past amongst indigenous peoples in their diverse field of specialization.



Objective

The objective of this book is to encourage, and influence researchers the world over to apply Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) using Action Research and Action Learning (AR and AL) approaches in their fields of specialization. The AR and AL framework, approaches and methodologies cut across almost all field of studies. Little has been done to infuse the above listed elements of AL and AR with IKS in research publications. The book intends to close that identified capacity gap of applying the IKS through AR and AL in diverse study fields.

There has lately been a gradually growing interest in IKS research trend due to its affluent and complex of both theory and practice based on the historical relationship between human advancement and the environment. Traditional research, has however, been more rigorous in the overview of IKS but AR and AL will unpack the interrelationship of IKS and any field of specialization in details proportions.



Target Audience

The IKS has been developed by indigenous people since the beginning of civilization, including herbal medicine production, blacksmithing, woodcarving, textile-weaving and dyeing, leather works, fishing, beadworks, pottery making, architecture, agriculture breeding, metal work, salt production, gold-smithing, copper-smithing, leather-crafting, soap-making, bronze-casting, hunting and war weapons, canoe-building, brewing, glassmaking, agriculture, mining, and interpreting the milky-galaxy, climate change and weather signs. Skill transfer was done through mentorship and story-telling folklore from one generation to the next. Most of these civilisation components has been adopted by many countries in their education systems and are taught within the classroom to produce engineers, technologists, bakers, artists (in all forms), plumbers, electricians, paediatricians', architects, builders, astronomers, educators, bankers, biologists, carpenters, florists, horticulturalists, geologists, gardeners, wedding planners, judges, lawyers, jewelists, philosophers, psychotherapists', lexicographers, farmers, navy, armies, merchants, scientists, meteorologists, cartographers, postmen, zookeepers, veterinarians, undertakers, jockeys, politicians, etc. All these listed professionals could benefit the more if their peers could take a journey of contributing a chapter of IKS using AR and AL approaches to outline the development of their field of specialization and highlight what is still being practice to date.

Recommended Topics

The topics for chapter calls may also serve as the book themes.

• Advancing STEM education paradigm within the context of Action Research and/or Action Learning (AR/AL).
• Professional development of teachers as co-researchers during AR and/or AL circular and spiral activities.
• Decolonise education system through AR and/or AL methodologies.
• Dealing with psychological impact of post-Covid 19 using AR/AL circular and/or spiral activities.
• How a research practitioner can apply AR/AL to effect organizational change in a workplace.
• How to achieve sustainable goals through AR/AL journey.
• Helping Health service employees and social service workers take their co-researchers as Community of Practice during AR/AL framework.
• Indigeneity of AR/AL through proactive process and/or reactive process during innovation and creativity.
• Indigenous transformation nature of AR/AL in the workplace.
• Partnership and participation of quality relationship with indigenous role-players through AL/AR.
• Change agents apply the AR/AL approaches as instrument of change to Indigenous or Aborigines group.
• The role of theories/paradigms in Indigenous Knowledge System (IKS) during AR/AL application.
• Relating Fourth Industrial Revolution with IKS using social and cultural factors: An AR/AL case.
• How can IKS co-exist with your field of specialization?
• Developing sensitivity, objectivity, values, and subjectivity on issues of AR/AL and Faith.
• Reshaping our daily lives with AI (Artificial Intelligence) to get creative and ditch AR/AL mundane tasks.
• How did TE (Technology Education) and/or TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training)/VET/VE/Occupational Education/Career and Technical Education evolve from IKS through dour AR/AL mentorship?
• Blending AR/AL with ODL (Open and Distance Learning) during remote and virtual learning.
• Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) data gathering and analysis framework in AL/AR.
• Pragmatism of IKS in AL/AR, research modalities of IKS in AL/AR.
• Traditional Ecological Knowledge versus Holistic Knowledge implications on IKS, etc.


Submission Procedure

Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before June 16 , 2024, a chapter proposal of 1,000 to 2,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by June 30, 2024 about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by September 30, 2024, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at https://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/ prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.

Note: There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication, Enabling Indigenous Knowledge Systems in Action Research and Action Learning. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-blind peer review editorial process.

All proposals should be submitted through the eEditorial Discovery® online submission manager.



Publisher

This book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly Idea Group Inc.), an international academic publisher of the "Information Science Reference" (formerly Idea Group Reference), "Medical Information Science Reference," "Business Science Reference," and "Engineering Science Reference" imprints. IGI Global specializes in publishing reference books, scholarly journals, and electronic databases featuring academic research on a variety of innovative topic areas including, but not limited to, education, social science, medicine and healthcare, business and management, information science and technology, engineering, public administration, library and information science, media and communication studies, and environmental science. For additional information regarding the publisher, please visit https://www.igi-global.com. This publication is anticipated to be released in 2025.



Important Dates

June 16, 2024: Proposal Submission Deadline
June 30, 2024: Notification of Acceptance
September 30, 2024: Full Chapter Submission
October 30, 2024: Review Results Returned
November 7, 2024: Final Acceptance Notification
November 30, 2024: Final Chapter Submission



Inquiries

Prof. Tomé Awshar Mapotse, DEd
University of South Africa
Mapotta@unisa.ac.za

Prof. Emmanuel N. A. Tetteh, Ph.D.
Mercy University, USA, Saybrook University, USA, Walden University, USA
vp-intl@alarassociation.org // etetteh@cfcpr.org

Tsebo Kgoto Matsekoleng
North-West University, South Africa
mabu@live.com



Classifications


Business and Management; Computer Science and Information Technology; Education; Environmental, Agricultural, and Physical Sciences; Library and Information Science; Medical, Healthcare, and Life Sciences; Media and Communications; Security and Forensics; Government and Law; Social Sciences and Humanities; Science and Engineering
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