Critical Pedagogy
Theory and Practice
Published on 1. April 2015
Book
Hardback
242 pages
978-0-415-45019-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores issues related to the loss of democracy, neoliberalism, and the problems of globalization and their relevance to education in the United States, Britain and other countries today.
Utilizing critical pedagogy, the authors examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities, along the axes of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability and, at the same time, offering opportunities for individual mobility. By relating issues of power and powerlessness, new social arrangements can be imagined, constructed and challenged in education and social life in general. The book explores the following core areas:
Attacks on the public sphere and public education
The loss of democracy
Teacher education, global capitalism and education
Power and knowledge and resistance
Critical literacy and pedagogy and praxis
Revolutionary multiculturalism and activism
Imagining the unimaginable
Utilizing critical pedagogy, the authors examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities, along the axes of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability and, at the same time, offering opportunities for individual mobility. By relating issues of power and powerlessness, new social arrangements can be imagined, constructed and challenged in education and social life in general. The book explores the following core areas:
Attacks on the public sphere and public education
The loss of democracy
Teacher education, global capitalism and education
Power and knowledge and resistance
Critical literacy and pedagogy and praxis
Revolutionary multiculturalism and activism
Imagining the unimaginable
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-415-45019-5 (9780415450195)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Monclair State University, USA University of California, Los Angeles, USA University of Northampton, UK. University of Northampton, UK
Content
1. Introduction Section One:Undermining Neoliberalism and the Constructed Spectacle 2. Teacher Education Matters: Teaching Against Nihilism,Alienation, and the Capital Relation 3. Progressive Education and "Democracy Promotion" in U.S. Policy 4. Grassroots Pedagogy and the Power of Place: Transformative Education from
the 'Ground-Up' 5. Cyber schooling, Electronic Capital and Surplus Value: Paradoxes, Problems and Possibilities Section Two:Building Bridges with Praxis Communities 6. Building Bridges with Praxis Communities: A Research Agenda for Academic/Activism 7. The Pedagogical Unconscious: Rethinking Marxist Pedagogy through Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson 8. Teacher Education for Social Transformation and its links to Progressive Social Movements: the case of the Landless People's Movement of Brazil ? 9. Guy Debord and Contemporary Schooling: A (Re)introduction 10. Public Pedagogy and the Quest for a Substantive Democracy 11. Popular Education and Critical Pedagogy: Towards a Unity of Theory and Practice 12. Examining the Past; Imagining the Future: Using Autobiography to Examine Class, Race, Gender and Dis/ability Inequalities in Education 13. Afterword
the 'Ground-Up' 5. Cyber schooling, Electronic Capital and Surplus Value: Paradoxes, Problems and Possibilities Section Two:Building Bridges with Praxis Communities 6. Building Bridges with Praxis Communities: A Research Agenda for Academic/Activism 7. The Pedagogical Unconscious: Rethinking Marxist Pedagogy through Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson 8. Teacher Education for Social Transformation and its links to Progressive Social Movements: the case of the Landless People's Movement of Brazil ? 9. Guy Debord and Contemporary Schooling: A (Re)introduction 10. Public Pedagogy and the Quest for a Substantive Democracy 11. Popular Education and Critical Pedagogy: Towards a Unity of Theory and Practice 12. Examining the Past; Imagining the Future: Using Autobiography to Examine Class, Race, Gender and Dis/ability Inequalities in Education 13. Afterword