Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A Worlded Philosophy (New Directions in the Philosophy of Education)

Indigenous Education and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a notion of education called ‘worldedness’ that sits at the core of indigenous philosophy.This is the idea that any one thing is constituted by all others and is, therefore, educational to the extent that it is formational.A suggested opposite of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which describes the tendency in dominant Western philosophy to privilege presence over absence.This book compares these competing philosophies and argues that, even though the metaphysics of presence and the formational notion of education are at odds with each other, they also constitute each other from an indigenous worlded philosophical viewpoint. Drawing on both Maori and Western philosophies, this book demonstrates how the metaphysics of presence is both related and opposed to the indigenous notion of worldedness.Mika explains that presence seeks to fragment things in the world, underpins how indig