Structural White Ignorance and Education for Racial Justice

Autor/in	Nikolaidis, A. C.
Titel	Structural White Ignorance and Education for Racial Justice
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Education, 21 (2023) 1, S.52-70 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Nikolaidis, A. C.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1477-8785
DOI	10.1177/14778785231162106
Schlagwörter	Racism; Racial Attitudes; Whites; Epistemology; Social Justice; Knowledge Level; Causal Models; Values Education; Educational Theories; Educational Practices + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassismus; Rassenfrage; White; Weißer; Erkenntnistheorie; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Wissensbasis; Kausalanalyse; Werterziehung; Educational theory; Theory of education; Bildungstheorie; Bildungspraxis
Abstract	While white ignorance is primarily produced and reproduced through social-structural processes, philosophy of education scholarship has focused on agent-centered educational solutions. This article argues that agent-centered solutions are ineffective and that education for disrupting white ignorance must be structure-centered. Specifically, the article contends that (1) social-structural processes often render being in a state of white ignorance reasonable and that (2) assigning white ignorant agents individual responsibility for overcoming their ignorance is often unreasonable. Consequently, epistemic virtue-based approaches to education are insufficient and inappropriate. Instead, the author proposes prioritizing political forms of education. This includes educating students on how to participate in political action and using political action to educate the public. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01