Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing

Name: Non-Western Perspectives on Learning and Knowing
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ISBN: 9781575242804

ISBN-10: 157524280X

ISBN-13: 9781575242804

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sharan B. Merriam

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This book introduces readers to systems of knowing and learning different from our familiar Western educational tradition. As with other areas of education, the knowledge base that has developed around adult learning and education has been firmly lodged in Western values and culture. But we need only look beyond our borders as well as to our own indigenous Native Americans to find major systems of thought and beliefs embedded in entirely different cultural values. Chapters on Native American Indigenous Knowledge, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Maori, Latin American Perspectives and African Indigenous Knowledge will acquaint readers with alternative understandings of learning,…

Book details

Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Krieger Publishing Company
Binding: Hardcover
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Sharan B. Merriam is professor of adult education at the University of Georgia.Ralph G. Brockett is professor of adult education at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.