1 Some Reflections on Working-Class Ontology and Epistemology—or Why Teaching in Higher Education Needs to Be More Concrete
22 Pages
Open Access
Journal:
PHILOSOPHY AND THEORY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Volume 3
Issue 2
Publication Year 2021
pp. 1 - 22
Summary
Based on my own experiences with having one foot in academia and the other in construction, I reflect on how the tendential form of work among the working class affects their ontology and epistemology, and discuss what this may mean for teaching and learning in higher education. I attempt to write from both a working-class and middle-class perspective. This I do because it was the clashing of my working-class and middle-class experiences that caused me to reflect on forms of work in relation to ontology and epistemology; I need to present both perspectives to make sense of the argument.
Details
- Pages
- 22
- DOI
- 10.3726/PTIHE022021.0001
- Open Access
- CC-BY
- Keywords
- working class ontology epistemology higher education critical realism autoethnography
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