Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education (Hc)

Epistemologies of Ignorance provide educators a distinct epistemological view on questions ofmarginalization oppression relations of power and dominance difference philosophy and evendeath among our youth. The authors of this edited collection challenge the ambivalence - ignorance- found in the construction of curriculum teaching practices research guidelines and policymandates in our schools. Further ignorance is also considered a necessary by-product ofknowledge production. In this sense the authors explore not only issues of complicity but alsoissues of oppression in spite of educators' liberatory intentions.While this is the first systematic effort to transfer epistemologies of ignorance to the educationalscene this movement has its roots in race class gender and sexuality studies particularly the workof Charles Mills Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana. It is ourunequivocal belief that while this is transformative and powerful scholarship the study ofignorance remains understudied and under-theorized in education scholarship from curriculum studies and cultural foundations toscience education and educational psychology. This collection highlights without apology why this dangerous state of affairs cannotcontinue.