Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 275 pages) |
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Explorations of educational purpose ; v. 1 |
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Explorations of educational purpose ; v. 1.
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Springer eBooks |
Subject |
Critical pedagogy.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Social epistemology.
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sociology of knowledge.
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EDUCATION -- Aims & Objectives.
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Sciences humaines.
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Sciences sociales.
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Education.
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Critical pedagogy
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Social epistemology
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781402082245 |
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140208224X |
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9781402082238 |
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1402082231 |
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