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ERIC Number: EJ1491503
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Nov
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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EISSN: EISSN-1757-7438
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Epistemic Injustice and Unwellness in the Classroom: Creating Knowledge Like We Matter
Power and Education, v17 n3 p389-399 2025
In this essay, I reflect on my experience teaching graduate classes on social justice in Yerevan. Here, an important part of the experience of injustice is epistemic. By this, I mean that students' discourses of injustice often centre around their perception of other peoples' lack of and/or refusal of their knowledge and consequent misrepresentation of current -- and past -- events. This form of epistemic injustice is layered upon experiences of war, loss, and dislocation which drive many students to take up graduate studies in social justice. In response, I consider the nature of the unwellness created by the intertwining of this experience and the epistemic injustice perpetuated around and about it. I discuss troubles in the reception and misuse of context. Subsequently, I think about how we can challenge this unwellness through how we create knowledge as a learning community. Rather than producing rules, I propose touchstones which might guide us to create knowledge as though our 'we' -- in community of difference -- matters, and as though we, in fact, "matter."
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Armenia
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Author Affiliations: 1College of Humanities and Social Sciences, American University of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia