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Author Kincheloe, Joe L.

Title Knowledge and critical pedagogy : an introduction / by Joe L. Kincheloe
Published Dordrecht ; London : Springer, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages)
Series Explorations of educational purpose ; v. 1
Explorations of educational purpose ; v. 1.
Contents Introduction: What We Call Knowledge Is Complicated and Harbors Profound Consequences; The Politics of Epistemology, the Politics of Education; From Reductionism to Critical Knowledge; The Power of FIDUROD; Questions of Power and Knowledge; Down and Dirty: Outlining FIDUROD; The Naked and the Epistemologically Deadening: Understanding FIDUROD; Knowledge Stampede On Land, at Sea, and in Cyberspace: What Is and What Could Be; The Long March to a New Knowledge Space: Constructing a Critical Complex Epistemology
Summary In a globalized neo-colonial world an insidious and often debilitating crisis of knowledge not only continues to undermine the quality of research produced by scholars but to also perpetuate a neo-colonial and oppressive socio-cultural, political economic, and educational system. The lack of attention such issues receive in pedagogical institutions around the world undermines the value of education and its role as a force of social justice. In this context these knowledge issues become a central concern of critical pedagogy. As a mode of education that is dedicated to a rigorous form of knowle
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Critical pedagogy.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Social epistemology.
sociology of knowledge.
EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
Sciences humaines.
Sciences sociales.
Education.
Critical pedagogy
Knowledge, Sociology of
Social epistemology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781402082245
140208224X
9781402082238
1402082231