Indigenous schooling and the Metaphysics of Presence: A worlded philosophy explores a idea of schooling known as ‘worldedness’ that sits on the center of indigenous philosophy. this can be the concept that anybody factor is constituted via all others and is, as a result, academic to the level that it really is formational. A advised contrary of this indigenous philosophy is the metaphysics of presence, which describes the tendency in dominant Western philosophy to privilege presence over absence. This booklet compares those competing philosophies and argues that, even supposing the metaphysics of presence and the formational concept of schooling are at odds with one another, in addition they represent one another from an indigenous worlded philosophical viewpoint.

Drawing on either Maori and Western philosophies, this booklet demonstrates how the metaphysics of presence is either similar and against the indigenous inspiration of worldedness. Mika explains that presence seeks to fragment issues on the planet, underpins how indigenous peoples can symbolize issues, and prevents indigenous scholars, critics, and students from reflecting on philosophical colonisation. even though, the metaphysics of presence, from an indigenous viewpoint, is constituted by way of all different issues on the planet, and Mika argues that the indigenous scholar and critic can re-emphasise worldedness and destabilise presence via artistic responses, humour, and speculative considering. This ebook concludes through positioning healthiness inside schooling, simply because schooling includes acts of worldedness and presence.

This booklet should be of key curiosity to indigenous in addition to non-indigenous teachers, researchers and postgraduate scholars within the fields of philosophy of schooling, indigenous and Western philosophy, political procedure and post-colonial experiences. it's going to even be appropriate in case you have an interest in philosophies of language, ontology, metaphysics and knowledge.