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One of the guiding myths of the American education system is that it exists for the purposes of the creation, preservation, and transmission of knowledge. Inside this mythos, schools sit like brokerage houses of a particular kind of cultural commodity. They are charged with distributing knowledge—understood as objective data, facts, or generalizable information—from those certified as knowledgeable to those who wish to know what is true.
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Stoller, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Knowing and Learning as Creative Action: A Reexamination of the Epistemological Foundations of Education. The Cultural and Social Foundations of Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465245_1
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