Table of Contents

Preface – Acknowledgments – Introduction: What Does Ontology Have to Do with Education? – Water: James’s Pure Experience – Land: First Nations’ Examples – Plants: Deleuze’s and Guattari’s Rhizomes – Sky: Indra’s Net – Spider Webs: African Examples – Educational Implications – About the Author – Index.

About the Author

Barbara J. Thayer-Bacon, Ph.D. (Indiana University, Bloomington) teaches graduate courses on philosophy and history of education, and cultural diversity at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her primary research areas are: philosophy of education, pragmatism, feminist theory and pedagogy, and cultural studies in education.