ABSTRACT
Politics and ethics exist in dynamic tension within educational settings. This tension can be simultaneously exciting and painful, supporting regularity and comfort, dissonance and fear. Because the authors are all stakeholders in educational processes, they have an interest in determining what should be valued in educational communities and whose understandings should be placed at their core. Thus, one of the important questions involved in making ethical and political educational choices, Feminist academics have played a crucial role in higher education’s heightened attention to the nature of truth. Analyses of feminist teaching practices suggest an expansion of teachers’ and students’ roles, as well as an expansion of the knowledges and truths with which they engage. Pondering the status and roles of truth has been and continues to be a regular event in the works of philosophers and educators.
