Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy

This book serves as a complex but accessible introduction to issues surrounding knowledge and education. It provides a unique critique of contemporary dominant modes of knowledge production and a new critical complex way of reframing knowledge production.

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 attention such issues receive in pedagogical institutions around the world undermines the value of education and its role as a force of social justice. In this context these knowledge issues become a central concern of critical pedagogy. As a mode of education that is dedicated to a rigorous form of knowledge work, teachers and students as knowledge producers, anti-oppressive educational and social practices, and diverse perspectives from multiple social locations, critical pedagogy views dominant knowledge policies as a direct assault on its goals. Knowledge and Critical Pedagogy: An Introduction takes scholars through a critical review of the issues facing researchers and educators in the last years of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Refusing to assume the reader's familiarity with such issues but concurrently rebuffing the tendency to dumb down such complex issues, the book serves as an excellent introduction to one of the most important and complicated issues of our time.

Inhalt
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.