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Direct linkMerriam, Sharan B.; Kim, Young Sek – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2008
What counts as knowledge and truth in an African context is deeply embedded in the community and is a product of age and experience, in contrast to "the western strategy of convincing with arguments. From the African point of view, arguments are a sign of weakness, of lack of power and vitality. A good, forceful truth does not need arguments.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Non Western Civilization, Perspective Taking, Adult Learning
