<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> The present paper attempts to interrogate the existing approach to understand academic achievement in the mainstream educational psychology. The paper explores the persistent question of “why academic achievement gap” in the modern society from the cultural ecological and postformalist framework of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe respectively. As mainstream educational psychology limits its scope in the narrowed individualistic lens, paper suggests that dominant identity based curriculum, pedagogy and knowledge may concretize the psychological categories unless revolutionary efforts are made to transcend the boundaries. Thus, paper adopts critical interdisciplinary framework, rejecting positivistic metatheory as an only relevant approach in educational psychology.</p></abstract>

The present paper attempts to interrogate the existing approach to understand academic achievement in the mainstream educational psychology. The paper explores the persistent question of “why academic achievement gap” in the modern society from the cultural ecological and postformalist framework of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe respectively. As mainstream educational psychology limits its scope in the narrowed individualistic lens, paper suggests that dominant identity based curriculum, pedagogy and knowledge may concretize the psychological categories unless revolutionary efforts are made to transcend the boundaries. Thus, paper adopts critical interdisciplinary framework, rejecting positivistic metatheory as an only relevant approach in educational psychology.

Post-formalist explanation of academic achievement: Exploring the contribution of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe

Christ University Department of Psychology Hosur Road Bangalore Karnataka 560029,

Journal of Pedagogy

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The present paper attempts to interrogate the existing approach to understand academic achievement in the mainstream educational psychology. The paper explores...

Post-formalist explanation of academic achievement: Exploring the contribution of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 33 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jped-2015-0009

Keywords
postformalism, educational psychology, academic achievement, India, Ogbu, Kincheloe

© by Chetan Sinha

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Post-formalist explanation of academic achievement: Exploring the contribution of John Ogbu and Joe Kincheloe

Published Online: Dec 30, 2016

Page range: 33 - 50

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jped-2015-0009

Keywordspostformalism, educational psychology, academic achievement, India, Ogbu, Kincheloe

© by Chetan Sinha

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
postformalism, educational psychology, academic achievement, India, Ogbu, Kincheloe