What is in a name? This question is a quandary for culturally relevant teaching (CRT). As a way of grappling with the dilemma, this article raises three essential questions to address if CRT is being applied in name only, or has it evolved in ways that are beyond just terminology with distinguishable types of CRT? First, a historical accounting or…

The study reported on in this paper aims to understand, challenge, and deconstruct what the "Local" means for the development of Indigenous education in Taiwan. More precisely, it will question the idea of the Local in this context, as Indigenous people do not necessarily all hold similar views about Local Indigeneity and its place in…

Throughout history, philosophers have reflected on educational questions. Some of their ideas emerged in defense of, or opposition to, skepticism about the possibility of formal teaching and learning. These philosophers include Plato, Augustine, St Thomas Aquinas, Søren Kierkegaard, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Together, they…