Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
FrancoAngeli Journals

Articles

No. 1 Special Issue (2025)

Affirming Epistemic Equality in Pedagogical Relationships: Outlining Theory and Practice

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/erpoa1SI-2025oa19372
Submitted
febbraio 10, 2025
Published
2025-11-18

Abstract

This paper sketches the outlines of a pedagogy for epistemic justice that aims to embody epistemic equality axiomatically, rather than pursuing it as an aim. To do so, the paper draws from a post-critical lens and engages with the perspectives of Rancière, Roth, and Heidegger.

References

  1. Bingham, C.W., Biest, G.J.J. (2010). Jacques Rancière : education, truth, emancipation. London: Continuum.
  2. Dunne, G. (2023). Epistemic Injustice in Education. Educational philosophy and theory, 55(3), pp. 285-289. DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2022.2139238.
  3. Fricker, M. (2007). Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  4. Heidegger, M. (1971). Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper Colophon Books.
  5. Hodgson, N., Vlieghe, J., Zamojski, P. (2017). Manifesto for a post-critical pedagogy. Santa Barbara (CA): punctum books.
  6. International Commission on the Futures of Education (2021). Reimagining our futures together: a new social contract for education. UNESCO.
  7. Kotzee, B. & Sato, K. (2023). Testimonial Justice and the Voluntarism Problem: The Virtue of Just Acceptance. Journal of philosophy of education, 57(4-5), pp. 803-825. DOI: 10.1093/jopedu/qhad063.
  8. Magrini, J. (2012). Worlds Apart in the Curriculum: Heidegger, Technology, and the Poietic Attunement of Literature. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44, pp. 500-21.
  9. Marabini, A. (2022). Critical Thinking and Epistemic Injustice: An Essay in Epistemology of Education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
  10. McCreary, M. (2021). Rancière’s The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Poetic Virtue and the Method of Equality. Educational theory, 71(6), pp. 743-766. DOI: 10.1111/edth.12507.
  11. Nardo, A. (2025). Dwelling as an Educational Concept. Journal of Philosophy of Education, 59, pp. 388-405.
  12. Nikolaidis, A. C. (2023) Epistemic Injustice in Education: Exploring Structural Approaches, Envisioning Structural Remedies. Journal of philosophy of education, 57(4-5), pp. 842-861. DOI: 10.1093/jopedu/qhad074.
  13. Ranciere, J. (1991). Ignorant Schoolmaster. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  14. Roth, M.-W. (2018). Dwelling, Building, Thinking: A post-constructivist Perspective on Education, Learning, and Development. Leiden: Brill.