Epistemological pluralism: Ethical and pedagogical challenges in higher education
Authors: Vanessa Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew, and Garrick Cooper
Overview
Abstract (English)
This paper offers a brief analysis of aspects related to the significance and the complexities of introducing ‘different’ epistemologies in higher education teaching and learning. We start by introducing the metaphors of abyssal thinking, epistemic blindness and ecologies of knowledge in the work of Boaventura de Souza Santos. In the second part of the paper we use Santos’ metaphors to engage with the tensions of translating aboriginal epistemologies into non-aboriginal languages, categories and technologies. In the third part, we offer a situated illustration of an attempt to introduce epistemological pluralism in addressing central concepts in teaching in higher education. In our conclusion we emphasize that political, ontological and metaphysical questions need to be considered very carefully in the process of introducing different epistemologies into higher education.
Abstract (French)
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Details
Type | Journal article |
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Author | Vanessa Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew, and Garrick Cooper |
Publication Year | 2011 |
Title | Epistemological pluralism: Ethical and pedagogical challenges in higher education |
Volume | 7 |
Journal Name | AlterNatives: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples |
Number | 1 |
Pages | 40-50 |
Publication Language | English |
- Vanessa Andreotti
- Vanessa Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew, and Garrick Cooper
- Epistemological pluralism: Ethical and pedagogical challenges in higher education
- AlterNatives: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
- 7
- 2011
- 1
- 40-50