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Learning, knowledge, and cultural context

Title
Learning, knowledge, and cultural context / edited by Linda King.
Publication
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer ; Hamburg : Unesco Institute for Education, ©1999.

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Additional Authors
  • King, Linda, 1949-
  • Unesco Institute for Education.
Description
pages 246-376; 24 cm.
Summary
This is a collection of papers on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between traditional and modern education.
Series Statement
IRE library
Uniform Title
IRE library.
Subject
  • Educational anthropology
  • Comparative education
  • Non-formal education
  • Anthropologie et éducation
  • Éducation comparée
  • Éducation non formelle
  • Kulturvergleich
  • Traditionelle Erziehung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Onderwijssociologie
  • Culturele invloeden
  • Education
Genre/Form
Aufsatzsammlung.
Note
  • "Reprinted from International review of education, Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4, 1999."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • English and French; summaries in German, Russian, and Spanish.
Contents
Articles. Enfants autochtones et apprentissage : la corporalite comme langage en Amerique du Sud tropicale / Aracy Lopes da Silva -- Other ways to wisdom : learning through the senses across cultures / Constance Classen -- Education traditionnelle au Benin : la place du sacre dans les rites initiatiques / Jean-Claude Quenum -- Community as classroom : dilemmas of valuing African indigenous literacy in education / Ladislaus Semali -- Mayan education in Guatemala : a pedagogical model and its political context / Meike Heckt -- Islamic versus Western conceptions of education : reflections on Egypt / Bradley J. Cook -- Notes. New Caledonia : coutume and culture in education / Pierre Clanche -- Learning through the soul : concepts relating to learning and knowledge in the Mayan cultures of Mexico / Linda King.
ISBN
  • 0792361415
  • 9780792361411
  • 9282010988
  • 9789282010983
LCCN
00710057
OCLC
  • ocm44572052
  • 44572052
  • SCSB-1211902
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library