New Genealogies and the Courage of Truth: Toward an Ethics of Adversarial Public Educational Scholarship and Policy Activism

Autor/inn/en	Burns, James P.; Green, Colin D.; Nolan, Jaime
Titel	New Genealogies and the Courage of Truth: Toward an Ethics of Adversarial Public Educational Scholarship and Policy Activism
Quelle	In: Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26 (2018) 151, (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Burns, James P.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-2341
Schlagwörter	Ethics; Public Education; Educational Research; Activism; Educational Policy; Advocacy; Power Structure; Public Relations; Propaganda; Research Methodology; Neoliberalism; Genealogy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethik; Öffentliche Erziehung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Sozialanwaltschaft; Public relation work; Öffentlichkeitsarbeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Ahnenforschung; Genealogie
Abstract	Science denial in the post-truth era is driven by both the rejection of empirical science and the fraudulent use of scientific language. Education policy based on junk science produced by philanthrocapitalists depoliticizes political questions by relocating complex legislative and policy issues from the realm of political and philosophical discourse to that of scientific rationality using metrics and methods that are themselves fatally flawed. Dominant configurations of institutional power also attack scholarship that both debunks spurious causal claims and establishes causal links to existential crises, which in both cases inconveniences the neoliberal capitalist project. We discuss the methodological implications of education research as the counter-conduct of policy advocacy against power claims based on both the rejection of empirical science and the production of junk science. We both discuss and model Foucault's tactic of genealogy and his analysis of "parrhesia", or truth telling, through creating an imperfect, preliminary genealogy of the "new" post-truth era, which contextualizes contemporary technologies of alternative facts in the history of public relations and propaganda that extend to the early 20th century. The methodological and political tactic of genealogy could be a move toward a new ethics of adversarial public scholarship that seeks to reconfigure what counts as scholarship in academia, itself a rationalizing disciplinary institution. Considering the moment, the study of power, the academy's roles both in subverting and perpetuating it, and the necessity of epistemological and methodological counter-conduct have perhaps never been more important. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01