Relational Ontologies

by Barbara Thayer-Bacon

Overview

Relational Ontologies uses the metaphor of a fishing net to represent the epistemological and ontological beliefs that we weave together for our children, to give meaning to their experiences and to help sustain them in their lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433132230
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	01/31/2017
Series:	Counterpoints: Studies in Criticality , #505
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x (d)

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.

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.