Critical Pedagogy and Cognition: An Introduction to a Postformal Educational Psychology (Explorations of Educational Purpose (15))

This book simultaneously contributes to the fields of critical pedagogy and educational psychology in new and innovative ways by demonstrating how critical pedagogy, postformal psychology, and Enlightenment science, seemingly separate and distinct disciplines, are actually part of the same larger, contextualized, complex whole from the inner most developmentally-fixed biological context of human faculties to the perpetually shifting, socially and politically constructed context of individual schema and human civilization. The text s uniqueness stems from its bold attempt to connect the postformal critical constructivist/pedagogy work of Joe Kincheloe and others to Western science through a shared, although previously misunderstood, critique and rejection of crude forms of social control, which the psychologists call behaviorism and Western scientists identify as mechanical philosophy. This book therefore argues that critical pedagogy which includes, among others, anarchist, Marxist, feminist, Indigenous (globally conceived), Afro-Caribbean/American, and postmodern traditions and critical/constructivist educational psychology have much to gain by engaging previously rejected work in critical solidarity, that is, without compromising one s values or democratic commitments. The goal of this book is therefore to contribute to this vision of developing a more transgressive and transformational educational psychology. " Front Matter....Pages i-xi Introduction....Pages 1-4 Front Matter....Pages 5-5 Paradigms and Knowledge: Understanding the Field of Cognitive Studies and Educational Psychology....Pages 7-65 The Social Construction of the Dominant Psychological Paradigm: Columbus, Slavery, and the Discourses of Domination....Pages 67-77 The Social Construction of Educational Psychology (Continued): Implications for Teacher Education....Pages 79-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-95 What Is Postformal Psychology? Toward a Theory of Critical Complexity....Pages 97-111 What Is Critical Pedagogy? The Historical and Philosophical Roots of Criticality....Pages 113-133 Academic Critical Pedagogy: Critical Pedagogy in the Contemporary Context....Pages 135-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Anarchy and Feminism in Psychology: Widening the Postformal Circle of Criticality....Pages 165-182 Back Matter....Pages 183-196 This innovative book synthesizes the apparently distinct fields of critical pedagogy, post-formal psychology, and Enlightenment science, showing how they are part of a complex whole that ranges from human biological faculties to politically constructed schema. Curry Stephenson Malott. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 183-191) And Indexes.