afr psych

indigenous psychology

Arises FROM a people's own social and cultural realities. Studies everyday behaviour,

indigenisation

Blends an IMPORTED framework with local elements — at the structural, substantive or theoretical level

structural

substantive

theoretical

self contained individualism

bounded auntonous entity

a person id defined by their internal attributes

independant of social and cultural factors

wests knower

solitart, disinterests stripped of paricularities

collectivist approach to the self

context based

defined by ones social relationships

cultural colonisation

the vertical top down one way transfer of knowledge ideas values and practices from developed to devleoping societies

psychic unity

the assumption that all human beings have the same underlying psychogical processes

sees culueral differences as superficial

seperate knowing

detached observer seeks objectve valure free facts

participatory knowing

the knower and known as interdependant

knowing thoruggh active engagemnet within the system youre studying

izinyanya

intergarted ancestors

why is ancestors not appropriate?

caries western misconceptions