Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy An Introduction /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kincheloe, Joe L. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose ; 1
• Subjects: Education.; International education.; Comparative education.; Educational sociology.; Education > Philosophy.; Social sciences.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Education, general.; Social Sciences, general.; Sociology of Education.; International and Comparative Education.; Educational Philosophy.

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 attenti...

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.