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Anarchy and Feminism in Psychology: Widening the Postformal Circle of Criticality

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Considering how Kincheloe’s postformal psychology as critical revolutionary practice might be extended and contributed to through the engagement with new, or too often ignored, ways of seeing and constructing the world, what I understand to be the more democratic impulses of the vast, diverse tradition known as anarchism will be explored here.

In their search for ways to produce democratic and evocative knowledges, critical constructivists become detectives of new ways of seeing and constructing the world.

(Kincheloe, 2005, p. 4)

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Malott, C.S. (2011). Anarchy and Feminism in Psychology: Widening the Postformal Circle of Criticality. In: Critical Pedagogy and Cognition. Explorations of Educational Purpose, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0630-9_8

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