George Gheverghese Joseph
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785911 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Gheverghese Joseph |
| GIVEN NAMES | George Gheverghese |
| FAMILY NAME | Joseph |
| SIGNATURE | JOSEPH G G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universities of Exeter, Manchester and Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Indigenous knowledge and western science
In recent years, a number of scientific bodies and development agencies have called for indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge to be recognised as valuable reservoirs of learning - a move inspired, in part, by the prospect of multinational biotechnology corporations exploiting traditional non-western medical, agricultural and ecological knowledge. But recognising the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge, albeit partially, has profound impl…
Cognitive encounters in India during the age of imperialism
The Politics of Anti-Racist Mathematics
At the Annual Conservative Party Conference in 1987, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: Children who need to count and multiply are being taught antiracist mathematics, whatever that may be
Eurocentrism in the social sciences
Ethnocentrism, of which Eurocentrism is a special case, refers to ’the tendency to view one’s own ethnic group and its social standards as the basis for evaluative judgements concerning the practices of others-with the implication that one views one’s own standards as superior’. ’ I On the face of it, no reasonable person would see such an academic approach as justifiable. Yet European ideas and concepts * have had such an extraordinary effect in…
Eurocentrism in the social sciences
Ethnocentrism, of which Eurocentrism is a special case, refers to ’the tendency to view one’s own ethnic group and its social standards as the basis for evaluative judgements concerning the practices of others-with the implication that one views one’s own standards as superior’. ’ I On the face of it, no reasonable person would see such an academic approach as justifiable. Yet European ideas and concepts * have had such an extraordinary effect in…
Indigenous knowledge and western science
In recent years, a number of scientific bodies and development agencies have called for indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge to be recognised as valuable reservoirs of learning - a move inspired, in part, by the prospect of multinational biotechnology corporations exploiting traditional non-western medical, agricultural and ecological knowledge. But recognising the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge, albeit partially, has profound impl…
Cognitive encounters in India during the age of imperialism
Eurocentrism in the social sciences
Ethnocentrism, of which Eurocentrism is a special case, refers to ’the tendency to view one’s own ethnic group and its social standards as the basis for evaluative judgements concerning the practices of others-with the implication that one views one’s own standards as superior’. ’ I On the face of it, no reasonable person would see such an academic approach as justifiable. Yet European ideas and concepts * have had such an extraordinary effect in…
The Politics of Anti-Racist Mathematics
At the Annual Conservative Party Conference in 1987, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared: Children who need to count and multiply are being taught antiracist mathematics, whatever that may be
Cognitive encounters in India during the age of imperialism
Indigenous knowledge and western science
In recent years, a number of scientific bodies and development agencies have called for indigenous and traditional systems of knowledge to be recognised as valuable reservoirs of learning - a move inspired, in part, by the prospect of multinational biotechnology corporations exploiting traditional non-western medical, agricultural and ecological knowledge. But recognising the legitimacy of indigenous knowledge, albeit partially, has profound impl…
Sociology (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · Criminology (1 works) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (1 works)