Small voices against the wind: Local knowledge and social transformation.

摘要: In all settings, people have interpretive frameworks and knowledge borne out of engaging in everyday activities. This local is tacit contains the prior assumptions recipes for life setting. times rapid social change, this under threat, especially when change agents introduce systems exogenous to milieu. clash between old new, at a cognitive level, can be constructive force but it also has potential destroy self-esteem capacity understand manage change. Drawing on examples arising work rural communities South Africa, dynamics conflict during period transformation are examined. Dislocations occur become obliged engage new activities whose origins lie outside context. Whether or not dislocations constitute productive destructive moments constructing ways thinkin...