Twenty reasons why local knowledge will remain relevant to development

Oluwatoyin Dare Kolawole

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 8, 1189-1195

Abstract: Local knowledge has continued to gain popularity among development practitioners in the last four decades. However, the future of local knowledge seems hazy to some academics and researchers, perhaps due to the methodological challenges in operationalising local knowledge in development research. Rather than appropriate its full potential for sustainable (global) progress, renditions on the relevance of local knowledge in development research agenda have largely become rhetoric. Nonetheless, this viewpoint outlines 20 pertinent reasons in support of the relevance of local knowledge and why it has a future in development theory and practice.

Date: 2015
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