[T]he ideas people hold about the world ... are not objectively fixed, but are rather socially constructed through historically developing relationships of power ... Similarly, dominant ideas about the nature of women are social constructions designed to manufacture consent for patriarchy from men and women. Postformalism therefore rejects the one right answer grand narrative ontology of formal science embracing, rather, a multilogicality that appreciates and learns from the knowledges and epistemologies subjugated, disrespected, and, in many instances, all but eradicated, by the enslaving and colonizing European forces that have transformed into neoliberal capitalism ...
For postformalists learning is consequently not just the passive transformation facts, or the objective, decontextualized cognitive development of learners, but it is a form of development that is always socially and politically mediated in increasingly complex and contradictory ways by dominant and subordinate forms of power. Continually seeking ways of seeing and logics that are counterhegemonic is thus a drive force behind posformalism. Many of these worldviews/philosophies are the interpretive frameworks of those most oppressed and exploited women and men by the capitalist relations of production and the formalism of dominant society intended to normalize and naturalize the insane logics of capital.
Curry Stephenson Malott, "Anarcho-Feminist Psychology:  Contributing to Postformal Criticality," Anarchist Pedagogies:  Collective Actions, Theories, and Critical Reflections on Education (2012)
