Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. King, Linda, 1949-
2. Unesco Institute for Education.

Description

1. pages 246-376; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This is a collection of papers on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and the interplay between traditional and modern education.

Series statement

1. IRE library

Uniform title

1. IRE library.

Subject

1. Educational anthropology
2. Comparative education
3. Non-formal education
4. Anthropologie et éducation
5. Éducation comparée
6. Éducation non formelle
7. Kulturvergleich
8. Traditionelle Erziehung
9. Aufsatzsammlung
10. Onderwijssociologie
11. Culturele invloeden
12. Education

Genre/Form

1. Aufsatzsammlung.

Contents

1. 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.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. "Reprinted from International review of education, Vol. 45, Nos. 3-4, 1999."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

1. English and French; summaries in German, Russian, and Spanish.