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Critical Geographic Modalities in Education

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Critical geography; Educational critical geography; Space and place

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Critical geography counters traditional proposals of boundaries put forth by the field of geography as objective. Critical geography situates Marxist critique as the root of analysis and gained momentum in the 1970s with Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School. Broadly, critical geography challenges ideologies that cultivate hegemonic constructs and promote notions of boundary rigidity, while simultaneously inquiring into the dynamism of geographies. At the intersection of these collective approaches to critical geography is an educational discourse. Within the field of education, this constantly raised discourse is in relation to space and place. The longevity of this discourse is witnessed in the scholarship of Anna Julia Cooper, W. E. B. Dubois, Pauli Murray, and Fredrick Douglas, to name a few. Collectively, their discourses raise an aspect of geographic transgression related to self and...

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Mitchell, R.P. (2020). Critical Geographic Modalities in Education. In: Peters, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1179-6_290-1

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