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Critical Ontology

Visions of Selfhood and Curriculum

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Key Works in Critical Pedagogy

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ((BVER,volume 32))

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Joe always incorporated the idea of selfhood within his work. He was both a champion of autobiography and self study as legitimate qualitative research, and the greatest critic of its use. Joe saw self study and critical autobiography as necessary components for researchers/scholars to identify themselves within their own work. Most of his doctoral students were asked to complete self research and connect it to their own theoretical underpinnings, with a bit of phenomenological hermeneutic seasoning.

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Kincheloe, J.L. (2011). Critical Ontology. In: Hayes, K., Steinberg, S.R., Tobin, K. (eds) Key Works in Critical Pedagogy. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 32. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-397-6_17

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