Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Citation Information; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Blind, or Keenly Self-regarding? The dilemma of Western philosophy; References; 1. The Humanist Bias in Western Philosophy and Education; Abstract; Notes; References; 2. Counter-Colonial and Philosophical Claims: An indigenous observation of Western philosophy; Abstract; Note; References; 3. Through the Crucible of Pain and Suffering: African-American philosophy as a gift and the countering of the western philosophical metanarrative; Abstract; Notes; References.
4. How Can We Overcome the Dichotomy that Western Culture has Created Between the Concepts of Independence and Dependence?Abstract; A Constant Dialectic Between Dependence and Independence; Between Independence and Dependence-The Divine Sanctuary within Man; The Nature of Education: The Quest for Autonomy and Affinity; References; 5. Rethinking the 'Western Tradition'; Abstract; Introduction; Of 'Blind Spots' and 'Blank Spots'; How the West was Never 'One': The Responses; Conclusion: Beyond 'Western Thought'; Notes; References.
6. How the West Was One: The Western as individualist, the African as communitarianAbstract; Introduction: Approaching 'the West'; How to Construe Geographical Labels; Western and African Philosophy of Education Compared; How to Question Individualism; Notes; References; 7. Human Freedom and the Philosophical Attitude; Abstract; 1. Two Understandings of the Discipline of Philosophy; 2. Transcendental Philosophy as an Exercise in Freedom and Discipline; Funding; Notes; References; 8. Doubt, Despair and Hope in Western Thought: Unamuno and the promise of education; Abstract.
Conclusion: Implications for Intercultural EducationReferences; 11. On the (Im)potentiality of an African Philosophy of Education to Disrupt Inhumanity; Abstract; Introduction; Inhumanity on the African Continent: A Persistent Violation of Human Dignity; Potentiality and a Community in Becoming: Rethinking Ubuntu Again; References; Index.
Doubt in Western PhilosophyDoubt, Despair and Hope: Unamuno and the Promise of Education; Closing Remarks; References; 9. The Offerings of Fringe Figures and Migrants; Abstract; The Western Tradition; Visibilities; Pedagogies; Resources and Friendship; Notes; References; 10. Actual Minds of Two Halves: Measurement, Metaphor and the Message; Abstract; Introduction: Mendeleyev's Dream and the Language of Science; Binary Models of Thinking: Beyond Bruner in Educational Theory; Te reo Maori: Favouring Right Brain Thinking?; Another Look at Worldview and Epistemological Divergence.