Epistemic freedom and epistemic violence as opposing education-related epistemic constructs¶

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Description¶

The article organizes its inquiry around two opposing epistemic constructs operating in education and communication. Epistemic violence is defined via Galván-Álvarez as "a kind of violence practiced via knowledge and as a fundamental component of the process to build hegemony", related to epistemic oppression and dependence on authority. Epistemic freedom is "referred to as freedom of expressing clashing propositions without the risk/fear of being wrong/incorrect", enabling learners to take epistemic risk. The study operationalizes both into four measurable dimensions for adults.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• An environment offering a culture that promotes epistemic freedom and resists epistemic violence, including democratic rather than authoritarian teaching approaches

Constraints¶

• The framework is examined here only for adults who have finished formal education, using a correlational design

Target Learners¶

• adults responsible for education
• youth as future adults

Target Learning Objectives¶

• developing epistemological beliefs to the highest level
• taking epistemic risk in the search for knowledge

Claims¶

• Epistemic Violence Negatively Correlated Epistemic Freedom [+M]
• Past Freedom Moderate High Tendency High [+M]

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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