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Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science (1981) and Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999).
Her books and essays chart the evolution of feminist criticism since the publication of Feminist Criticism in 1986, reflecting changes over the course of her academic career. Humm has engaged with a range of theories and ideas—including the "anxiety of influence," écriture féminine, postmodernism, and life-writing—guided by the belief ...
Opposed to a monist vision of scientific activity (according to which, would exist a unique scientific method), Knorr Cetina defines the concept of epistemic cultures as a diversity of scientific activities according to different scientific fields, not only in methods and tools, but also in types of reasonings, ways to establish evidence, and ...
Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer. She has been described as a genre-busting writer defying classification, working in autobiography, art criticism, theory, feminism, queerness, sexual violence, the history of the avant-garde, aesthetic theory, philosophy, scholarship, and poetry.
John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.
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The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy And Other Essays in Contemporary Thought. New York: Henry Holt and Company. April 1910 – via Google Books. Dewey, John; Dewey, Evelyn (1915). Schools Of To-morrow. New York: E. P. Dutton – via Internet Archive. "Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education". Democracy and ...
General Education in a Free Society, also known as the Harvard Redbook, is a 1945 Harvard University report on the importance of general education in American secondary and post-secondary schools. It is among the most important works in curriculum studies .