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Peer reviewedBredo, Eric – Educational Foundations, 1997
Examines common assumptions concerning the interrelationship between power and knowledge, and considers four ways that the power/knowledge argument can go awry: power as the cause of social inequity, categorization as discrimination, reason as repression, and the system as responsible. The paper encourages greater thoughtfulness in talking about…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Knowledge Level, Power Structure
