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- Title
Lehae-La-Rona: Epistemological Interrogations to Broaden our Conception of Environment and Sustainability.
- Authors
Mokuku, Tsepo
- Abstract
This paper develops and explores lehae-la-rona and its potential value in environment and sustainability discourse. It draws on African-centred concepts and critiques of dominant Eurocentric theoretical frameworks. In particular, Ani's concepts of asili, utamawazo and utamaroho and Indigenous knowledge theory are applied to appreciate the nature of Indigenous knowledge in Lesotho. Against this backdrop, the concepts of revealed knowledge, pono, and pono-tebo are applied to conceptualize lehae-la-rona. It is argued that lehae-la-rona can enable a holistic conceptualization of environment and position it and the local language, Sesotho, at the centre of Education for Sustainable Development discourse to offer a more African-centred worldview.
- Subjects
SUSTAINABLE development; ENVIRONMENTAL engineering; ENVIRONMENTAL education; SOTHO language; TRADITIONAL knowledge
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2012, Vol 17, p159
- ISSN
1205-5352
- Publication type
Article