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Critical Theory: Practices
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"Critical scholars in education have combined theory with political, cultural, and educational practices in unique ways. This tradition of critical studies has often been associated with a New Left in American academia; it is a tradition that emerged after McCarthyism, developing in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement, in the face of the Sputnik revolution and the Bay of Pigs fiasco."(Torres, 1998)
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[W]ithout a realistic concept of “emancipatory interests” that puts at the center the idea of a core of rational responsiveness on the part of subjects, perhaps neither critical theory nor librarianship will have a future. In the same way, any LIS praxis that blocks rational responsiveness on the part of the public using its services, its own practitioners, and its interaction with outside groups, either by what is given or dialectically unequal rhetoric, LIS’s own justification slips into technical instrumentation and as a work practice remains to outsiders either a mystery without warrant or subscribed in its intellectual and professional work without value.
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