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The epistemic privilege thesis states that there is some epistemic advantage to being in a position of marginalization. [3] In response to critiques that early standpoint theory treated social perspectives as monolithic or essentialized, social theorists understand standpoints as multifaceted rather than unvarying or absolute. [4]
Epistemic injustice takes place when the existing body of knowledge, perception, or judgement of the majority or the powerful one is wrong about lived experience of an individual. Philosopher Miranda Fricker elaborated this concept and classified it into Testimonial and Hermeneutical injustice. Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge.
Unequal access to education in the United States results in unequal outcomes for students. Disparities in academic access among students in the United States are the result of multiple factors including government policies, school choice, family wealth, parenting style, implicit bias towards students' race or ethnicity, and the resources available to students and their schools.
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Critical mathematics pedagogy is an approach to mathematics education that includes a practical and philosophical commitment to liberation. [1] Approaches that involve critical mathematics pedagogy give special attention to the social, political, cultural and economic contexts of oppression, as they can be understood through mathematics. [2]
Rhodes Must Fall movement is said to have been motivated by a desire to decolonize knowledge and education in South Africa. [1] Decolonization of knowledge (also epistemic decolonization or epistemological decolonization) is a concept advanced in decolonial scholarship [note 1] [note 2] that critiques the perceived hegemony of Western knowledge ...
Formal epistemology – subdiscipline of epistemology that uses formal methods from logic, probability theory and computability theory to elucidate traditional epistemic problems Computational epistemology; Historical epistemology – study of the historical conditions of, and changes in, different kinds of knowledge
Mathematics education has been a topic of debate among academics, parents, as well as educators. [ 4 ] [ 9 ] [ 195 ] [ 38 ] Majorities agree that mathematics is crucial, but there has been many divergent opinions on what kind of mathematics should be taught and whether relevance to the "real world" or rigor should be emphasized.