Foreword -- Introduction. What ifs -- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education -- 1. Education in a post-industrial world -- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories -- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM -- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness -- 4. Language and thought -- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education -- 5. Multimathemacy and education: general principles -- 6. Learning formal thinking in a culture-specific context -- 7. Combined mathematical operations: Locating and representing, measuring, designing, traditional building, archaeological digging, dancing, computer designing, storytelling, buying and selling -- 8.  Education in a school context -- 9. General conclusions -- 10. Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: A Motor for the Capability Approach -- Bibliography.This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education. Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.