A scoping review of intersections between indigenous knowledge systems and complexity-responsive evaluation research

African Evaluation Journal

 
 
Field Value
 
Title A scoping review of intersections between indigenous knowledge systems and complexity-responsive evaluation research
 
Creator Blaser-Mapitsa, Caitlin
 
Subject Evaluation; Research methods evaluation; critical systems; indigenous knowledge systems; research methods; applied research; transforming development
Description Background: Acknowledging the need to transform the evaluation sector in Africa, locally generated approaches have been a recent area of contestation for both researchers and practitioners. Whilst the need for an African evaluation approach has been well established in the literature, there are still significant gaps in a proactive response. One of these gaps is the role of indigenous knowledge systems in these evaluation approaches. Indigenous knowledge systems have been a priority research area for decades, often in fields of science and technology, education and in research methods. Despite these strong overlaps with areas of interest to evaluators, there has been relatively little intersection between research on evaluation systems and that on indigenous knowledge systems.Objectives: This article brings together these two areas of research to see what lessons for African-rooted evaluation approaches emerge from the body of research on indigenous knowledge systems.Method: To do this, a scoping review was conducted, applying a thematic analysis to literature identified for inclusion in the study.Results: This study found that there is considerable scope for the evaluation sector to draw on indigenous knowledge systems research, particularly drawing on process and methodological lessons from designing studies, as well as defining power dynamics and critical systems approaches.Conclusion: This analysis can contribute to a needed debate about how to define and promote localised, contextually relevant evaluation tools and methods. It can also contribute to building a research agenda around African evaluation approaches.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor CLEAR-AA
Date 2022-07-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Rapid Review
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/aej.v10i1.624
 
Source African Evaluation Journal; Vol 10, No 1 (2022); 10 pages 2306-5133 2310-4988
 
Language eng
 
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Coverage Africa Contemporary —
Rights Copyright (c) 2022 Caitlin Blaser-Mapitsa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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