Provide freedom-based education and settings to strengthen epistemic freedom and reduce epistemic violence¶

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Evidence · 1 claim (1 for) · 1 study (1 associational), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 1 claim rests on one study

Description¶

The authors recommend that learners be offered education that promotes epistemic freedom rather than authority-based conventions. They argue "individuals should be provided with a freedom-based education and setting", that youth as future adults should be offered epistemic freedom opportunities in their educational lives, and that "the most important effort to make is the implementation of constructive approach in the framework of ontological, epistemological, and axiological assumptions", supported by policy-media-college-school-family-learner collaborations.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Properly operating and functional micro- and macro-cultures for epistemic freedom
• Democratic rather than authoritarian educational approaches

Constraints¶

• The recommendation rests on correlational findings; the authors call for field-practice analyses and research into the sources of epistemic violence and freedom

Target Learners¶

• youth as future adults
• adults serving as intermediaries for others' education

Target Learning Goals¶

• strengthening tendency to epistemic freedom
• preventing epistemic violence and epistemic dependence on authority

Affordances¶

• Epistemic Freedom Violence Framework

Claims¶

• Adults' past enjoyment of education-related epistemic freedom is between moderate and high, and their tendency toward it is high [+W]

Related Strategies¶

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Kartal, O. Y., Yazgan, A. D., & Avci, E. (2018). An Investigation into the Relationship between Adults' Levels of Education-Related Epistemic Freedom and Epistemic Violence. International Education Studies, 11(10). https://doi.org/10.5539/ies.v11n10p96