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  2. Standpoint theory - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Epistemic injustice - Wikipedia

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    Epistemic injustice is injustice related to knowledge. It includes exclusion and silencing ; systematic distortion or misrepresentation of one's meanings or contributions; undervaluing of one's status or standing in communicative practices; unfair distinctions in authority; and unwarranted distrust.

  4. Not only a matter of education - HuffPost

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    Not only a matter of education Laura Agosta / Formar Foundation - September 2011 Executive summary In the past few decades, the education system in the US has undergone various reforms with the goal of achieving better quality for American students. Experts have tried measured the impact of these reforms and attempted to share some of their ...

  5. Outline of epistemology - Wikipedia

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    Epistemology Introduction, Part 1 and Part 2 by Paul Newall at the Galilean Library. Teaching Theory of Knowledge – Marjorie Clay (ed.), an electronic publication from The Council for Philosophical Studies. An Introduction to Epistemology by Paul Newall, aimed at beginners.

  6. Philosophy of education - Wikipedia

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    In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education, John Dewey stated that education, in its broadest sense, is the means of the "social continuity of life" given the "primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group". Education is therefore a necessity, for "the ...

  7. Decolonization of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. THE END - HuffPost

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    INTRODUCTION — TEN STEPS America was opened after the feudal mischief was spent. We began well. No inquisitions, here, no kings, no nobles… Ralph Waldo Emerson Dear Chris: Iam writing because we have an emergency. Here are U.S. news headlines from a two-week period in the late summer of 2006: July 22: “CIA WORKER SAYS MESSAGE ON TORTURE

  9. Justification (epistemology) - Wikipedia

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    Justification (also called epistemic justification) is a property of beliefs that fulfill certain norms about what a person should believe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Epistemologists often identify justification as a component of knowledge distinguishing it from mere true opinion. [ 3 ]