Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction (Explorations of Educational Purpose)

Contents......Page 12
Part 1: Introduction to Knowledge Production And its Relation To Education......Page 17
1. Introduction: What We Call Knowledge Is Complicated and Harbors Profound Consequences......Page 18
Framing Knowledge in a Global Context: The Twenty-First Century Global Politics of Knowledge......Page 20
Getting Started: Studying Knowledge and Its Production......Page 21
What Is Critical Pedagogy?......Page 23
What Does This Mean for Education and Classrooms?......Page 26
Danger Ahead: Teachers and Students Beware......Page 28
Three Licks: Critical Knowledge and the Definition of Epistemology......Page 30
Assumptions About Knowledge Insidiously Shape and Limit Our Realities: On the Road......Page 34
Playing With the Queen of Hearts: The Joker Ain't the Only Fool in FIDUROD......Page 36
Glossary......Page 39
2. The Politics of Epistemology, the Politics of Education......Page 41
Critical Educational Knowledge......Page 43
Critical Epistemology and the Destabilization of Fixed Meanings in Teaching and Learning......Page 44
Critical Knowledge Is Grounded on Critical Social Theoretical Insights: Producing a New Selfhood in a Rigorous Education......Page 46
Humans as Hopeful, Exploring Creatures: FIDUROD's Effort to Squash the Imagination......Page 49
Knowledge Regression Therapy: The Birth of Epistemology......Page 51
The Politics of a Correspondence Epistemology......Page 53
From a Critical Epistemology to a Critical Complex Epistemology......Page 55
Eurocentrism: The White Man's Epistemological Burden—Providing Truth to the World......Page 58
The Historical Foundations of the Dominant Epistemological System......Page 59
Conclusion: Reiterating the Warning......Page 62
Glossary......Page 63
FIDUROD, Political Economic Considerations, and the Complexities of Resistance: Dealing with Oppression......Page 64
Epistemological Naivete......Page 67
"Girl, There's a Better Life for Me and You": The Move to a Critical Complex Epistemology......Page 70
The Critical in Critical Complex Epistemology......Page 72
FIDUROD's Reductionism: Understanding the Western Data Input Spigot......Page 74
Moving to the 57th Dimension: Appreciating Diverse Knowledges and Ways of Seeing......Page 77
Critical Knowledge and Informed Practice: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Praxis, Praxis, Praxis......Page 80
Glossary......Page 81
Part 2: Traditional Western Epistemology and its Impact on Education: FIDUROD......Page 83
True Lies: The Emergence of Western Epistemological Supremacy......Page 84
Resistance—Paradigmatic Questions......Page 86
An Epistemological Loss of Purpose: Marooned on FIDUROD's Polluted Island......Page 89
FIDUROD Protects Us From a "Descent Into Barbarism": Hegemony and Knowledge Production......Page 91
Naïve Realism and Rationalism: No Escape from the Island......Page 93
FIDUROD and the World "Out There"......Page 97
Ecstatic Certainty: Don't Ya Smell That Smell?......Page 98
FIDUROD's Proclivity to Claim Objectivity......Page 103
"Objective" Portrayals of Islam and the Trouble They Generate......Page 105
Glossary......Page 107
Power Blocs, Universal Definitions, and Knowledge......Page 108
Knowledge for Poggle the Lesser's Death Star......Page 111
Knowledge for the Empire......Page 113
Imperial Knowledge: The Raw and the Cooked, the Enlightened and the Irrational......Page 114
Constructing Knowledge for Eternal War in a Globalized World......Page 117
Colonizing and Decolonizing the Mind: Corporate Media at Work......Page 119
This Just in: Capital Holds Knowledge Captive......Page 121
The Modern and the Rational: I Put a Spell On You......Page 124
Glossary......Page 126
6. Down and Dirty: Outlining FIDUROD......Page 127
Fragmentation and Abstraction: What Do You Know?......Page 128
Anything that can truly be called knowledge is scientific knowledge......Page 130
If It's Scientific Knowledge Then It's Empirically Verifable......Page 137
Methodological Universalism: The Same Methods Used to Explore the Physical World Should Be Used to Research the Social, Political, Psychological, and Educational Domains......Page 142
Living in a Material World of Substance: Genuine Knowledge Exists in Some Distinct Easily Measurable Quantity......Page 146
Glossary......Page 152
Invariance: The World Is Uniform and What We Study Remains Consistent......Page 153
Variables Can Be Controlled: The Forces That Cause Things to Take Place Are Bounded and Knowable......Page 159
Producing Certainty, the Truth: When We Produce Enough "Certain Knowledge" We Will Understand the World So Well That No Further Research Will Be Needed......Page 163
Objectivity Is Possible: Facts and Values Must Be Separated in the Production of Knowledge......Page 167
One Reality: The Goal of a FIDUROD-Driven Pedagogy Is to Inculcate That Reality Into the Minds of Students......Page 172
The Degradation of Teachers: Educators Become Mere Delivers of Truth Not Knowledge Producing Professionals or Transformative Cultural Workers......Page 177
Glossary......Page 181
Part 3: Developing a Critical Complex Epistemology and a Critical Politics of Knowledge......Page 183
8. Knowledge Stampede On Land, at Sea, and in Cyberspace: What Is and What Could Be......Page 184
Tracing the Footprints of Dominant Power: The Complicated Task of a Critical Politics of Knowledge, a Critical Complex Epistemology......Page 185
Freire's Radical Love: Remaking Ourselves and the World......Page 187
Decolonizing Epistemology: Beyond Eurocentrism and FIDUROD......Page 190
Moving Beyond Eurocentric Knowledge: Knowledge Work for Resistance......Page 194
Grounding a Critical Complex Epistemology on Decolonization and Pluriversality......Page 198
A Humble Cosmopolitanism: Trading Zones of Knowledge Exchange and the Construction of a Worldwide Critical Solidarity......Page 201
Pigs in Space: Epistemology in Cyberspace......Page 202
Contemporary Cyberspace and the Complex Ecology of Knowledge......Page 206
Judy in Disguise: Hermeneutics in Cyberspace......Page 209
Cyberspace, a Critical Complex Epistemology, and a New Socio-Historical Domain......Page 212
Developing Literacy of Power in Hyperreality: Heaven and Hell in Cyberspace......Page 215
Glossary......Page 216
9. The Long March to a New Knowledge Space: Constructing a Critical Complex Epistemology......Page 218
Knowledge is socially constructed: World and information co-construct one another......Page 222
Consciousness Is a Social Construction......Page 226
Political Struggles: Power Plays An Exaggerated Role in the Production of Knowledge and Consciousness......Page 229
The Necessity of Understanding Consciousness—Even Though It Does Not Lend Itself to Traditional Reductionistic Modes of Measurability......Page 232
The Importance of Uniting Logic and Emotion in the Process of Knowledge and Producing Knowledge......Page 233
The Inseparability of the Knower and the Known......Page 236
The Centrality of the Perspectives of Oppressed Peoples—the Value of the Insights of Those Who Have Suffered as the Result of Existing Social Arrangements......Page 238
The Existence of Multiple Realities: Making Sense of a World Far More Complex That We Originally Imagined......Page 240
Becoming Humble Knowledge Workers: Understanding Our Location in the Tangled Web of Reality......Page 243
Standpoint Epistemology: Locating Ourselves in the Web of Reality, We Are Better Equipped to Produce Our Own Knowledges......Page 245
Constructing Practical Knowledge for Critical Social Action......Page 247
Complexity: Overcoming Reductionism......Page 249
Knowledge Is Always Entrenched in a Larger Process......Page 252
The Centrality of Interpretation: Critical Hermeneutics......Page 254
The New Frontier of Classroom Knowledge: Personal Experiences Intersecting with Pluriversal Information......Page 257
Constructing New Ways of Being Human: Critical Ontology......Page 259
Glossary......Page 262
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