Epistemic injustice through transformative learning

Bibliographic Data

ID11953201
AuthorsFran Fairbairn (0000-0001-5713-6003, California State University, Bakersfield, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume57
Issue4-5
Pages964-982
Publication date2023-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Philosophy of Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-8249 • E-ISSN: 1467-9752
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/jopedu/qhad082
OpenAlexW4389450720
LanguageEN
References cited24

In this paper, I argue that epistemic injustice can result from transformative learning. Transformative learning causes a radical change in the structure of a student’s personal epistemic resources to bring them in line with the structure of a discipline’s shared epistemic resources. When those shared epistemic resources are biased, this transformation prevents students from retaining aspects of their personal epistemic resources which it is strongly in their interests (as well as in the interests of the broader epistemic community) to retain. In these cases, transformative learning causes epistemic injustice in the form of inferential injustice

Epistemology · Injustice · Pedagogy · Sociology · Transformative learning · Education and Critical Thinking Development · Educational Strategies and Epistemologies · Psychology · Religious Education and Schools · Philosophy · Social Psychology

Tools

Open DOI