Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction

By Joe L. Kincheloe

Book Overview

Preface PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND ITS RELATION TO EDUCATION Chapter 1 Introduction: What we call knowledge is complicated and harbors profound consequences Chapter 2 The politics of epistemology, the politics of education Chapter 3 From reductionism to critical knowledge PART 2 TRADITIONAL WESTERN EPISTEMOLOGY AND ITS IMPACT ON EDUCATION: FIDUROD Chapter 4 The power of FIDUROD Chapter 5 Questions of power and knowledge Chapter 6 Down and dirty: Outlining FIDUROD Chapter 7 The naked and the epistemologically deadening: Understanding FIDUROD PART 3 DEVELOPING A CRITICAL COMPLEX EPISTEMOLOGY AND A CRITICAL POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE Chapter 8 Knowledge stampede on land, at sea, and in cyberspace: What is and what could be Chapter 9 The long march to a new knowledge space: Constructing a critical complex epistemology Chapter 10 The conclusion is just the beginning: Continuing the conceptualization of a critical complex epistemology References

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402082231
• ISBN13: 9781402082238
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"