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Publication Date: 2020
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A Picture Speaks a Thousand Words? Vision, Visuality and Authorization
Baker, Bernadette; Saari, Antti
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v52 n2 p159-169 2020
Images of brains circulate today as rationales for decision-making and selectivity in policies, curriculum, preservice teacher education and inservice professional development. The excitement over brain-based research, its visual reach and authorizing role accompanies longstanding debates in which the status attributed to biology, physiology and allied psychological approaches has been considered prejudicial. This article traces a series of dislocations in the linkages forged between discourses of vision and epistemic authorization, and how they still inhere in contemporary debates over brain imaging. The critical history that the article offers within the general framework of Visual science and technology studies requires questioning some of the core tenets of visual culture, including what gets to count as the visual, 'its' role in legitimation, and the primacy assigned to looking and observation as strategies of truth-production.
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Decision Making, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neurosciences, Epistemology, Diagnostic Tests, Guidelines, Christianity, Ethics, Photography, Visual Stimuli, Educational Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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