Learning, Knowledge and Cultural Context

by Linda King

This special issue of the International Review of Education includes contri- butions on indigenous knowledge, the cultural context of learning and on the interplay between the so-called "traditional" and "modern" ways of educa- tion. It starts from the assumption that cultures are not static, that they are shifting and mutating, and that the Western need to encapsulate "other cultures", which found its most extreme form in their being frozen in time...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792361415
• ISBN13: 9780792361411
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"