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Transfromative Activist Stance for Education

The challenge of inventing the future in moving beyond the status quo

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Psychology in Education

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In this chapter, I engage key positions presently dominant across many strands of critical scholarship on the epistemological and ontological questions about the ways through which people get to know their world and about the nature of reality that backgrounds these processes.

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  1. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, United States

    Anna Stetsenko

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  1. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Tim Corcoran

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Stetsenko, A. (2014). Transfromative Activist Stance for Education. In: Corcoran, T. (eds) Psychology in Education. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-566-3_12

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