Non-Western Educational Traditions: Indigenous Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice

Table of contents

The first page of every section is available free to non-members – click a section heading to start reading now!

• Non-Western Educational Traditions - Indigenous Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• 1 - An Introduction to the Study of Non-Western and Indigenous Educational Traditions: a Philosophical Starting Point 1
• Notes *
• 2 - Conceptualizing Culture: “i, We, and the Other” 29
• Notes *
• 3 - A Wise Child is Talked to in Proverbs: Indigenous African Educational Thought and Practice 55
• Notes *
• 4 - Training “face and Heart”: the Mesoamerican Educational Experience 91
• Notes *
• 5 - Finding the True Meaning of Life: Indigenous Education in North America 117
• Notes *
• 6 - Developing the Chlin-Tzu: Confucius and the Chinese Educational Heritage 135
• Notes *

• Non-Western Educational Traditions - Indigenous Approaches to Educational Thought and Practice *
• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Preface xi
• 1 - An Introduction to the Study of Non-Western and Indigenous Educational Traditions: a Philosophical Starting Point 1
• Notes *
• 2 - Conceptualizing Culture: “i, We, and the Other” 29
• Notes *
• 3 - A Wise Child is Talked to in Proverbs: Indigenous African Educational Thought and Practice 55
• Notes *
• 4 - Training “face and Heart”: the Mesoamerican Educational Experience 91
• Notes *
• 5 - Finding the True Meaning of Life: Indigenous Education in North America 117
• Notes *
• 6 - Developing the Chlin-Tzu: Confucius and the Chinese Educational Heritage 135
• Notes *
• 7 - An Intelligent Man Attends on a Wise Person: Traditional Hindu and Buddhist Educational Thought and Practice 163
• Notes *
• 8 - Familiar Strangers: the Case of the Rom 193
• Notes *
• 9 - No Gift is Better Than Education: the Islamic Educational Enterprise 217
• Notes 239
• 10 - Themes and Lessons in the Study of Non-Western Educational Traditions: Toward a Beginning 247
• Notes *
• Bibliography 257
• Author Index 291
• Subject Index 295