<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>It is evident that practice and praxis have significantly contributed to knowledge generation in the Tanzanian coastal belt, especially where Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programmes have been adopted and practiced such as Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara, Lindi, and the Coastal region (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_trser-2017-0008_ref_009_w2aab2b8c14b1b7b1ab1ab9Aa">KICAMP, 2001</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_trser-2017-0008_ref_016_w2aab2b8c14b1b7b1ab1ac16Aa">NICEMS, 2003</xref>). In spite of such learning evidences, users of generated natural resource data in the coastal area tend to employ <italic>practice</italic> and <italic>praxis interchangeably</italic>, conflating the two concepts together; leading to a situation where one may hardly ascribe generated knowledge appropriately to contexts that favour occurrence of each of the two constructs. The paper adopts ethnographic approach in a defined coastal case study to examine contexts and situations that signals “conflationˮ and it employs examples that may help readers of the article to disambiguate praxis from practice.</p></abstract>

It is evident that practice and praxis have significantly contributed to knowledge generation in the Tanzanian coastal belt, especially where Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) programmes have been adopted and practiced such as Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Mtwara, Lindi, and the Coastal region (KICAMP, 2001; NICEMS, 2003). In spite of such learning evidences, users of generated natural resource data in the coastal area tend to employ practice and praxis interchangeably, conflating the two concepts together; leading to a situation where one may hardly ascribe generated knowledge appropriately to contexts that favour occurrence of each of the two constructs. The paper adopts ethnographic approach in a defined coastal case study to examine contexts and situations that signals “conflationˮ and it employs examples that may help readers of the article to disambiguate praxis from practice.

Disambiguating Praxis from Practice in Natural Resource Management: A Practical Space for Enhancing Experiential Learning in the Eastern Coast of Tanzania

Dar es Salaam University College of Education, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Geography and Economics, Dar es Salaam, P.O. Box 2329,

Transylvanian Review of Systematical and Ecological Research

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It is evident that practice and praxis have significantly contributed to knowledge generation in the Tanzanian coastal belt, especially where Integrated...

Disambiguating Praxis from Practice in Natural Resource Management: A Practical Space for Enhancing Experiential Learning in the Eastern Coast of Tanzania

Published Online: Mar 20, 2017

Page range: 85 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/trser-2017-0008

Keywords
Praxis, Practice, Natural resource management, Experiential Learning

© 2017 Daniel Sabai, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Disambiguating Praxis from Practice in Natural Resource Management: A Practical Space for Enhancing Experiential Learning in the Eastern Coast of Tanzania

Published Online: Mar 20, 2017

Page range: 85 - 95

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/trser-2017-0008

KeywordsPraxis, Practice, Natural resource management, Experiential Learning

© 2017 Daniel Sabai, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Praxis, Practice, Natural resource management, Experiential Learning