%0 Journal Article
%T The Secret Downing Street Memo and the Politics of Truth: A Performance Text
%A Norman K. Denzin
%J International Journal of Progressive Education
%D 2006
%I International Association of Educators
%X Reading forward from the recently released secret Downing Street Memos, to the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, in this performance text I critique the Bush Administration and its reliance on science, or evidence-based models of inquiry (SBR). SBR raises issues concerning the politics of truth and evidence. These issues intersect with the ways in which a given political regime fixes facts to fit ideology. Three versions of SBR are discussed, as is a model of science as disruptive cultural practice. I conclude by calling for a merger of critical pedagogy with a prophetic, feminist post-pragmatism.
%K evidence-based inquiry
%K feminist post-pragmatism
%K critical pedagogy
%K Performance Text
%U http://www.inased.org/v2n3/denzin2.htm