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EPISTEMOLOGIES OF IGNORANCE IN EDUCATION IBD

INFORMATION AGE PUBLISHING
02 / 2011
9781617353451
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Sinopsis

Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions ofmarginalization, oppression, relations of power and dominance, difference, philosophy, and evendeath among our youth. The authors of this edited collection challenge the ambivalence - ignorance- found in the construction of curriculum, teaching practices, research guidelines, and policymandates in our schools. Further, ignorance is also considered a necessary by-product ofknowledge production. In this sense, the authors explore not only issues of complicity but alsoissues of oppression in spite of educators? liberatory intentions.While this is the first systematic effort to transfer epistemologies of ignorance to the educationalscene, this movement has its roots in race, class, gender, and sexuality studies, particularly the workof Charles Mills, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Shannon Sullivan, and Nancy Tuana. It is ourunequivocal belief that, while this is transformative and powerful scholarship, the study ofignorance remains understudied and under-theorized in education scholarship, from curriculum studies and cultural foundations toscience education and educational psychology. This collection highlights without apology why this dangerous state of affairs cannotcontinue.

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82,95