Schooling and Local Knowledge for Collecting Wild Honey in South India: Balancing Multifaceted Educations?
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Kathryn Demps et al., « Schooling and Local Knowledge for Collecting Wild Honey in South India: Balancing Multifaceted Educations? », HAL-SHS : sciences de l'éducation, ID : 10.1111/cuag.12045
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For indigenous populations, schooling and local knowledgesystems may be at odds. Understanding indigenouslearning systems can help mitigate conflicts between acquisitionof local ecological knowledge and academic knowledge.Among boys and men of the Jenu Kuruba of South India, wecompare levels of schooling and local knowledge related towild honey collection, a central domain of male localecological knowledge. For boys, school attendance, but notperformance, negatively correlates with local knowledgerelated to honey collecting. Men’s local knowledge for thisactivity negatively correlates with years of schooling, buttheir practical skills either neutrally or slightly positively