Includes bibliographical references.

An introduction to non-Western perspectives on learning and knowing / Sharan B. Merriam -- Islam's lifelong learning mandate / Mazalan Kamis and Mazanah Muhammad -- American Indian indigenous pedagogy / Paula Gunn Allen -- Hinduism and learning / Swathi Nath Thaker -- Māori concepts of learning and knowledge / Brian Findsen and Lavinia Tamarua -- Buddhist learning: a process to be enlightened / Jienshen Shih -- African indigenous knowledge: the case of Botswana / Gabo Ntseane -- Liberation theology and leaning in Latin America / Simone Conceição and Augusto Marcos Fagundes Oliveira -- Adult learning from a Confucian way of thinking / Youngwha Kee -- Broadening our understanding of learning and knowing / Sharan B. Merriam.