Education and Knowledge: The Structured Misrepresentation of Reality

by Kevin Harris

In this book, first published in 1979, Kevin Harris explores the idea that in capitalist liberal democracies formal education functions essentially not to reveal reality, but rather to transmit to each new generation a structured misrepresentation of reality. In defence of this controversial and thought-provoking view, the author argues that all knowledge of the world is theory-laden and that a neutral, detached, objective description of the world...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113869407X
• ISBN13: 9781138694071
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Seeing and Challenging the Real Matriz

The author discusses ideology in very simple terms, and thens demonstrates how education is used to present an intentionally distorted picture of reality. Very persuasive. He also suggest ways to challenge the matrix, and remains very grounded in the difficulty of this challenge.Read the book, and free your mind.