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Within this chapter we examine the ways in which ideas regarding educational psychology are reproduced by the dominant society through a process of educational and media indoctrination and propaganda. In the first section of this chapter we examine the role the colonization of the Americas and the trans-Atlantic slave trade played in establishing the current Euro-centric, pro-bosses hegemony and the subsequent racist/white supremacist social construction of psychological concepts such as intelligence.
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Malott, C.S. (2011). The Social Construction of the Dominant Psychological Paradigm: Columbus, Slavery, and the Discourses of Domination. In: Critical Pedagogy and Cognition. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0630-9_3
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