Overview
- Introduces readers to a complex set of ideas around issues of critical pedagogy, cognition, and educational psychology
- Lays out a new paradigmatic approach to the study of cognition and the implications of this perspective for educational psychology
- Presents complex ideas in an accessible format
Part of the book series: Explorations of Educational Purpose (EXEP, volume 15)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Psychological And Critical Foundations
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Critical Theory And Revolutionary Psychology
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About this book
This book simultaneously contributes to the fields of critical pedagogy and educational psychology in new and innovative ways by demonstrating how critical pedagogy, postformal psychology, and Enlightenment science, seemingly separate and distinct disciplines, are actually part of the same larger, contextualized, complex whole from the inner most developmentally-fixed biological context of human faculties to the perpetually shifting, socially and politically constructed context of individual schema and human civilization.
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The text’s uniqueness stems from its bold attempt to connect the postformal critical constructivist/pedagogy work of Joe Kincheloe and others to Western science through a shared, although previously misunderstood, critique and rejection of crude forms of social control, which the psychologists call behaviorism and Western scientists identify as mechanical philosophy. This book therefore argues that critical pedagogy— which includes, among others, anarchist, Marxist, feminist, Indigenous (globally conceived), Afro-Caribbean/American, and postmodern traditions—and critical/constructivist educational psychology have much to gain by engaging previously rejected work in critical solidarity, that is, without compromising one’s values or democratic commitments. The goal of this book is therefore to contribute to this vision of developing a more transgressive and transformational educational psychology.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Critical Pedagogy and Cognition
Book Subtitle: An Introduction to a Postformal Educational Psychology
Authors: Curry Stephenson Malott
Series Title: Explorations of Educational Purpose
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0630-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-0629-3Published: 23 February 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3531-6Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-0630-9Published: 10 February 2011
Series ISSN: 1875-4449
Series E-ISSN: 1875-4457
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 196