Non-Western perspectives on learning and knowing / Sharan B. Merriam and associates. - Malabar, Fla. : Krieger Pub. Co., 2007. - xiv, 188 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

An introduction to non-Western perspectives on learning and knowing / Sharan B. Merriam -- Islam's lifelong learning mandate / Mazalan Kamis and Mazanah Muhammad -- American Indian indigenous pedagogy / Paula Gunn Allen -- Hinduism and learning / Swathi Nath Thaker -- Māori concepts of learning and knowledge / Brian Findsen and Lavinia Tamarua -- Buddhist learning: a process to be enlightened / Jienshen Shih -- African indigenous knowledge: the case of Botswana / Gabo Ntseane -- Liberation theology and leaning in Latin America / Simone Conceição and Augusto Marcos Fagundes Oliveira -- Adult learning from a Confucian way of thinking / Youngwha Kee -- Broadening our understanding of learning and knowing / Sharan B. Merriam.

157524280X (alk. paper)

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Learning--Philosophy.
Education--Philosophy.
Indigenous peoples--Education.
Learning--Cross-cultural studies.

LB1060 / N66 2007

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