The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research
Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy
Editors: Simpson, Ashley, Dervin, Fred (Eds.)
Free Preview- Questions and criticizes the notion of criticality in education research
- Contests the definition of criticality and explores its deficiencies
- Provides an alternative path to dominant notions of criticality
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- About this book
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This book explores, and problematizes, what it means to be ‘critical’ in education research. Drawing together chapters from diverse global perspectives, this volume aims to stimulate dialogue about possible meanings of criticality in education research. In doing so, they question why criticality has become such an essential part of education, and what researchers expect of it. The book opens up and contests some of the deficiencies of criticality in education research: ultimately it is not a global term, but often creates a false binary between East and West. Offering an alternative trajectory to educational narratives surrounding criticality, this book will be of interest and value to scholars of critical pedagogy and comparative education.
- About the authors
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Ashley Simpson is Assistant Professor at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China. His research specialises in intercultural education, discourse theories and methods, and critical approaches to democracy.
Fred Dervin is Professor of Multicultural Education at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He also holds honorary and visiting professorships in Australia, Canada, China, Luxembourg, Malaysia and Sweden. He specializes in intercultural communication education, the sociology of multiculturalism and student and academic mobility.
- Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Introduction: Beyond Impotent Criticality in Education Research?
Pages 1-19
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Developing Anglo-centred Academic Literacy: Problematizing Understandings of Criticality
Pages 23-45
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Criticality Within the “École de la République”: A Study of a French Educational Programme Based on Scientific Research
Pages 47-70
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Reflections on Narratives of Others’ Lives in Critical Educational Research
Pages 71-97
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Critical Online Learning Networks of Teachers: Communality and Collegiality as Contingent Elements
Pages 101-126
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Meaning of Criticality in Education Research
- Book Subtitle
- Reflecting on Critical Pedagogy
- Editors
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- Ashley Simpson
- Fred Dervin
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Education Research Methods
- Copyright
- 2020
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-56009-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-56009-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-56008-9
- Series ISSN
- 2662-7345
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 228
- Number of Illustrations
- 6 b/w illustrations
- Topics
