- Survey sent to 6500 Penn State faculty and cooperative extension
staff in November 2004 by the PSU Survey Research Center. Over 30
percent (n=1894) response rate.
Almost 40 percent of respondents use indigenous knowledge in
their teaching, research, or outreach activities. Thirty one percent
use local, traditional or folk knowledge in their teaching. The following
is information based on those respondents who use such knowledge
in their courses (n=553).
Distribution of respondents by location
- Over half of those who reported that
they incorporate local, traditional or folk knowledge in their
courses have less than eight years of service at
Penn State and hold a fixed-term or adjunct position.
- Nine out of ten respondents who said they incorporate
local, traditional or folk knowledge in their courses identified
themselves as white. The other demographic
groups were almost equally represented in the remaining eleven
percent.
Distribution of respondents by race/ethnicity
Director-
Dr. Ladislaus M. Semali
257 Chamber Building
Department of Curriculum and Instructions
College of Education
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-2246
Fax: (814)863-7602
Email: lms11@psu.edu
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- Respondents were equally divided by gender, but
women reported a shorter length of service at Penn State.
- Nine out of ten respondents are not familiar with
ICIK, The Interinstitutional Consortium for
Indigenous Knowledge at Penn State.
- Given below are responses to selected items on the survey.
Respondents were asked to indicate their level of agreement with
the statements in reference to their course with local, traditional
or folk knowledge content.
To teach this course I involve practitioners with
local, traditional, or folk knowledge:
Students take this course because it is a required
class in their discipline.
I am encouraged in my efforts to teach this course
by my peers at Penn State
- Most frequent reason given for incorporating local, traditional,
or folk ways of knowing in teaching, research or outreach is
to expose students to 'ways of knowing' that move
them beyond their own common-sense understandings of the world.
Dr. Audrey N. Maretzki
218 Food Sciences Building New
Department of Food Science
College of Agricultural Sciences
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-4751
Fax: (814)863-6152
Email: anm1@psu.edu
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