POST-FORMALIST EXPLANATION OF ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: EXPLORING THE CONTRIBUTION OF JOHN OGBU AND JOE KINCHELOE

• Authors: Sinha Chetan
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The present paper attempts to interrogate the existing approach to understand academic achievement in the mainstream educational psychology. The paper explores the persistent question of “why academic achievement gap” in the modern society from the cultural ecological and post-formalist framework of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe respectively. As mainstream educational psychology limits its scope in the narrowed individualistic lens, paper suggests that dominant identity based curriculum, pedagogy and knowledge may concretize the psychological categories unless revolutionary efforts are made to transcend the boundaries. Thus, paper adopts critical interdisciplinary framework, rejecting positivistic metatheory as an only relevant approach in educational psychology.

Keywords

EN

POST-FORMALISM; EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY; ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; INDIA; OGBU JOHN; KINCHELOE JOE

• Publisher: Faculty of Education, Trnava University
• Journal: Pedagogický časopis (Journal of Pedagogy)
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 33 – 50

Contributors

author

Sinha Chetan

• Christ University, Department of psychology, Hosur road, Bangalore Karnataka 560029, India

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jped-2015-0009