Education in the Post-Truth Era: Southeast Nigeria's Conflict Between Ideological Indoctrination and Critical Thinking

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Abstract

The epistemic underpinnings of contemporary education have been called into question by the rise of the "post-truth" era. The objective of educating people to be logical, critically engaged citizens is becoming more difficult in a society where sentimental appeals and personal opinions frequently take precedence over objective facts. A cultural shift in which truth is not only contested but purposefully distorted for ideological purposes was signaled by the Oxford Dictionary's selection of "post-truth" as the 2016 Word of the Year (Lewandowsky et al., 2017; McIntyre, 2018). The study examines how educators deal with curriculum limitations, institutional pressures, and sociopolitical influences in the post-truth era using a qualitative methodology.

Author

• Christopher Obiyo, Patrise Inc.