Answer to Question #308992 in Philosophy for Lungelo

Question

Discuss critical realism as it relates to education

Answer 1

Critical realism is concerned with the nature of causation, agency, structure, and relations, and the implicit or explicit ontologies we are operating with. Critical realism accepts educational structures, and social structures that impact on education, such as assessment, as real, which allows them not only to be described and evaluated as causal mechanisms of action, but also as practices that can be altered (Shipway, 2011) , allowing criticality to be deconceptualized as action. Critical realism exist in schools to reveal the order of the world and universe. Teachers imparts knowledge form basic to complex. Child is well-mannered and well-informed. In realism, the human mind represents the external world but does not duplicate it.