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.

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.