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A Utopian Methodology as a Tool for Cultural and Critical Psychologies: Toward a Positive Critical Theory

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A Utopian Methodology as a Tool for Cultural and Critical Psychologies: Toward a Positive Critical Theory
Abstract/Description
This chapter offers an introduction to a program of research, teaching, and community development that can serve as a model for what the authors refer to as a positive critical theory. Critical theorizing has roots in several corners of the humanities and the term means different things across discourse communities. The authors' use of the term marks their attempt to supersede those forms of criticism that offer no possibility for remedy or redress within the reach of people who don't benefit from reading academic texts. The authors conclude with a critical assessment of their own success and failure to theorize, implement, and sustain Fifth Dimensions as alternatives to dominant practices in terms of the notion of a positive critical theory.
Author/creator
Brown, Katherine
Cole, Michael
Date
2001
In publication
Cultural and Critical Perspectives on Human Development
Pages
41-65
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Resource type
en Background/Context
Medium
en Print
Background/context type
en Conceptual
Keywords
cross cultural psychology
methodology
theories
theory formulation
Open access/free-text available
en Yes
Peer reviewed
en No
ISBN
978-0-7914-5179-3 978-0-7914-5180-9
URL
Open Access PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)
Cited in
Equitable Learning
Place
Albany, NY, US
Item sets
Open Access Resource (IRE)
Handbook Chapter 3 Citations

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