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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: CRITICAL THEORY
Critical theory is concerned with identifying the power relationships and forms of oppression that exist in a society or culture with the goal emancipating individual members.
Critical theory, as a branch of social constructivism (constructionism), finds its roots in critical hermeneutics from the late 19th century. Critical theorists tend to focus on the metaphor of power as manifest within particular knowledge domains and cultural practices. They note that power, for the most part, does not operate on conscious or deliberate levels, but tends to be tacitly inscribed in different systems of interpretation—especially those represented in modern curricula.
For critical theorists, as for complexivists, one’s identity is ever-evolving and constructed at the intersections of our individual, collective, biological, social, cultural and political interactions.
