African Vs. Western Perspective

Question 1

Western Perspective

Answer 1

• independent view of self
• knowledge is value free
• knower is solitary disintrested entity stripped from ties to culture , gender etc.
• self is boundless autonomous entity , defined in terms of internal attributes apart from social and cotextual factors
• Self contained individualism

Question 2

Indingenous View

Answer 2

• context based
• ones relationship to others
• Collectivist / Interdependent Self

Question 3

Indigenous Psychologies

Answer 3

Study of human behav & mental processes within cultural context, relies on values, concepts and belief systems and other resources indigenous to particular cultur or ethnic group

Question 4

Worldview

Answer 4

Provides responses to set of questions that people in all cultures have

Question 5

4 Components of Worldviews

Answer 5

1. Time orientation
2. People - nature orientation
3. Human activity orientation
4. Relational orientation

Question 6

Metaphysics

Answer 6

Concerned with peoples conception of reality, their position in universe and their relation to others and the environment

Question 7

Worldviews of Africans have 4 interdependent philosophical assumptions?

Answer 7

1. Hierarchy of beings
2. Notion of vitality / Life Force
3. Prinicple of cosmic unity
4. Communal view of personhood