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 Western philosophy to privilege presence over absence. This book compares these competing philosophies and argues that, even though the metaphysics of...