A Critical Politics of Knowledge: Analyzing the Role of Educational Psychology in Educational Policy

Autor/in	Kincheloe, Joe L.
Titel	A Critical Politics of Knowledge: Analyzing the Role of Educational Psychology in Educational Policy
Quelle	In: Policy Futures in Education, 4 (2006) 3, S.220-235 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1478-2103
DOI	10.2304/pfie.2006.4.3.220
Schlagwörter	Educational Psychology; Ideology; Psychometrics; Politics of Education; Educational Policy; Intelligence; Critical Theory; Ethnocentrism; Bias; Educational History; Western Civilization; Epistemology; Learning Theories; Educational Assessment; Social Class + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erziehungspsychologie; Pädagogische Psychologie; Ideologie; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politics of education; Intelligenz; Klugheit; Kritische Theorie; Ethnozentrismus; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Erkenntnistheorie; Learning theory; Lerntheorie; Education; assessment; Bewertungssystem; Social classes; Soziale Klasse
Abstract	This article examines the ideological dimensions of educational psychology and psychometrics as they relate to the validation of the "intelligence" of the privileged and the "deficiency" of the marginalized. In this critique a critical psychology emerges that takes seriously the lifeworld experiences of culturally and politically oppressed groups. This critical intervention in psychology forces the field to confront its class elitism, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy, as well as the epistemological foundations on which it is constructed. Here the abstracted study of individual minds is rejected for a more contextualized view. Mind in the critical view is more a distributed concept than an autonomous, isolated one bounded by the border of the brain. In this context the ideological dimensions of psychology can be challenged. (Author).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10