Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and indexes.

Preamble 1: from scarcity to impoverishment -- Ahn Linh's shapes / Sharon Friesen, Patricia Clifford and David Jardine -- Preamble 2: signs of abundance -- Eight pedagogical preambles on dolly the sheep / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 3: on play and abundance -- "Let Eric's age be 'X' : a brief mathematical phenomenology / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 4: do they or don't they? -- Welcoming the old man home : Jean Piaget and the "nostalgia for the original" / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 5: on ontology and epistemology -- Behind each jewel are three thousand sweating horses: meditations on the ontology of mathematics / David W. Jardine, Sharon Friesen & Patricia Clifford -- Preamble 6: getting over the great humiliation -- Abundance and the limits of teacher knowledge / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 7: monsters in abundance (with Brent Novodvorski) -- "Disproportion, monstrousness and mystery" : ecological and ethical reflections on the initiation of student-teachers into the community of education / David W. Jardine & James C. Field -- Preamble 8t: "catch only what you've thrown yourself ..." -- Cutting nature's leading strings : a cautionary tale about constructivism / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 9: stepping away from the marriage of knowledge and production -- Further thoughts on "cutting nature's leading strings" : a conversation / Bruce Johnson, Lessa Fawcett & David W. Jardine -- Preamble 10: "within each dust mote" -- The fecundity of the individual case : considerations of the pedagogic heart of interpretive work / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 11: "given abundance. . ." -- On the integrity of things : reflections on the "integrated curriculum" / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 12: settling and unsettling -- Under the tough old stars : pedagogical hyperactivity and the mood of environmental education / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 13: Kai enthautha einai theous -- On the ecologies of mathematical language and the rhythms of the earth / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 14: abundant webs -- "If you want to" : inquiry and the arrival of new information and communications technologies into the world of the classroom / Sharon Friesen, Patricia Clifford & David W. Jardine -- Preamble 15: the abundance of the future -- Filling this empty chair : on genius and repose / David W. Jardine & Jennifer Batycky -- Preamble 16: covering the curriculum -- The individual child / David W. Jardine -- Preamble 17: the face of "the real world" -- Staying within the lines : re-imagining what is "elementary" in the art of schooling / David W. Jardine, Tanya Graham, Annette LaGrange, and Hanne Kisling-Saunders -- Preamble 18: murmuring over texts -- In his own hand : interpretation and the effacing of the scribe / David W. Jardine, Tanya Graham, Sharon Friesen & Patricia Clifford -- Preamble 19: on emptiness and abundance -- Unable to return to the gods that made them / David W. Jardine.