Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity Mapping a Disputed Terrain /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ruitenberg, Claudia W. (Editor), Phillips, D.C (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education ; 2
• Subjects: Education.; Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and social sciences.; Education > Philosophy.; Educational Philosophy.; Philosophy of Education.; Education, general.; Philosophy, general.

In the recent educational research literature, it has been asserted that ethnic or cultural groups have their own distinctive epistemologies, and that these have been given short shrift by the dominant social group.  Educational research, then, is pursued within a framework that embodies assumptions...

Table of Contents:

• About the Authors
• Foreword
• 1. Introduction; Claudia W. Ruitenberg and D.C. Phillips
•  2. A Critical Review of Representative Sources on Multi-Cultural Epistemology; D.C. Phillips._Epistemologists and Educational Researchers in Word and Deed: A Commentary; Claudia W. Ruitenberg
• 3. Charting the Reefs: A Map of Multicultural Epistemology; Jon A. Levisohn and D.C. Phillips
• 4. Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much Ado about Nothing Much?; Harvey Siegel
• 5. Taking Subjectivity into Account; Lorraine Code
• 6. Epistemology as Trope: Uses and Effects of Claims about “Ways of Knowing”; Claudia W. Ruitenberg
• 7. Epistemological Diversity: A Roundtable; Lorraine Code, D.C. Phillips, Claudia Ruitenberg, Harvey Siegel, and Lynda Stone._Epilogue 1; Claudia W. Ruitenberg._Epilogue 2; D.C. Phillips
• 8. Second Thoughts; Claudia W. Ruitenberg and D.C. Phillips
• Bibliography
• Index.  .