Relational «(e)pistemologies» redefines epistemology in a non-transcendent manner and reclaims
the traditional epistemological concerns of standards and criteria for warranting arguments and
determining truth and falsity. These concerns must be reclaimed in order to make them visible
and accountable as well as pragmatically useful on socially constructed grounds - not
transcendental grounds. Thayer-Bacon's book offers analysis and critique as well as
redescription. She presents a pragmatist social feminist view a relational perspective of
knowing embedded within a discussion of many other relational views - personal social and
holistic ecological and scientific - which emphasize connections. Thayer-Bacon describes each
of these forms of relationality and she points to key scholars whose work highlights a certain
relational form. She concludes with a discussion of the educational implications relational
(e)pistemological theories have for education.
