Injustiças, opressões epistêmicas e educação

Abstract

This research aims to investigate possible relations between the concepts of “epistemic injustice”, “epistemic oppression”, as Social Epistemology’s literature defines, and the education. I intend to answer the following questions: what are epistemic injustices and oppressions? Are there some relations between these epistemic injustices, oppressions, and the education? What is a just education, epistemically speaking? To answer it, I divided the dissertation into three chapters, each dedicated to one of these issues. In the first chapter, I will introduce the concepts of epistemic injustice and epistemic oppression, paying attention to possible conceptual divergences and interpretative horizons. In the second chapter, I will try to identify the relation between epistemic injustice, oppression, and education, from the Social Epistemology point of view. Finally, in the third chapter, I intend to return to the authors presented in the first chapter to investigate available concepts of justice applicable to the educational context.