TY - JOUR
T1 - Editors’ introduction
T2 - What an eight-foot-long mega colon taught us about attending to uncomfortable knowledges
AU - Sandlin, Jennifer A.
AU - Letts, Will
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Curriculum and Pedagogy Group.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - To make sense of the complexity of the world so that they can act, individuals and institutions need to develop simplified, self-consistent versions of that world. The process of doing so means that much of what is known about the world needs to be excluded from those versions, and in particular that knowledge which is in tension or outright contradiction with those versions must be expunged. This is ‘uncomfortable knowledge.’ (Rayner, 2012, p. 107).
AB - To make sense of the complexity of the world so that they can act, individuals and institutions need to develop simplified, self-consistent versions of that world. The process of doing so means that much of what is known about the world needs to be excluded from those versions, and in particular that knowledge which is in tension or outright contradiction with those versions must be expunged. This is ‘uncomfortable knowledge.’ (Rayner, 2012, p. 107).
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U2 - 10.1080/15505170.2014.914320
DO - 10.1080/15505170.2014.914320
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85037819362
SN - 1550-5170
VL - 11
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
JF - Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy
IS - 1
ER -