Overview

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 knowledge work, teachers and students as knowledge producers, anti-oppressive educational and social practices, and diverse perspectives from multiple social locations, critical pedagogy views dominant knowledge policies as a direct assault on its goals. Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction takes scholars through a critical review of the issues facing researchers and educators in the last years of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Refusing to assume the reader’s familiarity with such issues but concurrently rebuffing the tendency to dumb down such complex issues, the book serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most important and complicated issues of our time.

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Author:   Joe L. Kincheloe
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Volume:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.920kg
ISBN:  

9789048197453

ISBN 10:   9048197457
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   18 August 2010
Audience:   Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

to Knowledge Production And its Relation To Education.- Introduction: What We Call Knowledge Is Complicated and Harbors Profound Consequences.- The Politics of Epistemology, the Politics of Education.- From Reductionism to Critical Knowledge.- Traditional Western Epistemology and its Impact on Education: FIDUROD.- The Power of FIDUROD.- Questions of Power and Knowledge.- Down and Dirty: Outlining FIDUROD.- The Naked and the Epistemologically Deadening: Understanding FIDUROD.- Developing a Critical Complex Epistemology and a Critical Politics of Knowledge.- 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.- The Conclusion Is Just the Beginning: Continuing the Conceptualization of a Critical Complex Epistemology.

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