ASSIGNMENT 1 2025
UNIQUE NO.
DUE DATE: MAY 2025
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Assignment 1
Unique Assignment Number: 820716
Assignment instructions:
1. Read the statement below, and answer the question that follows.
2. This is a written assignment individual assignment. Your assignment must be no more than
2-3 pages in length (excluding references).
3. Please remember to reference your work, both in text, and in a reference list. Please refer to
APA 7th edition referencing guidelines.
4. Assignments that are not referenced, will receive a mark of 0.
5. Your assignment will be put through Turnitin, as a similarities detection programme. Please
ensure to reference correctly, and to submit your own work. Copying or assisting others, or
receiving assistance is not permitted. Also ensure to not use AI tools to write the assignment
for you.
6. The assignment will count 30 marks in total.
“Epistemology is the study or theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge, or in other words,
“epistemology is thinking about thinking” (Auerswald, 1996. P. 1).
Critically comment on this statement, by discussing the modernist and postmodernist perspectives,
the related paradigms and how ecosystemic theory is integrated theoretically. In your answer,
include a discussion of African epistemology, as it relates to the different paradigms and ecosystemic
theory.
Total: 30 Marks