A Conversation on a critical theory and studies of education with Thomas Popkewitz
Keywords:
Critical theory, social epistemology, history of present, political sociology of education, school, curriculum
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Abstract
This interview with Thomas Popkewitz addresses various issues related to his thought and work. After a review of his own biography, in which we can appreciate the way in which he develops and sustains his critical thinking that develops a field of thought that engages the political of schooling diferente from prior notions of critical theory that he introduces for educational studies. In his discussion, he analyzes questions such as critical theory today, the space of the University and the role of intellectuals, and the rethinking of agency, resistence and the alternatives. His discussion provides a way to theorize and study the knowledge (reason) of schooling as having a materiality and as the political through engaging a cultural and historical sociology with currículum studies. The interview pays attention to the historical conditions and paradoxes of efforts to include that create and distribute differences that make the present possible and intelligible.
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