Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

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  • Author: Henry A. Giroux
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791400364
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 340

Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.


Critical Literacy

Critical Literacy

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  • Author: Maxine Greene
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791412305
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 472

Illustrates the differences and similarities between modernist and postmodernist theories of literacy, and suggests how the best elements of both can be fused to provide a more rigorous conception of literacy that will bring theoretical, ethical, political, and practical benefits. Some of the 14 essays are theoretical, other present case studies of literacy programs for adults and other applications. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture

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  • Author: Peter McLaren
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1134922280
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 316

This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.


Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century

Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century

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  • Author: Curry Malott
  • Publisher: IAP
  • ISBN: 1617353329
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 619

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness. The challenge for critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century, from this point of view, includes contributing to the manifestation of a truly global critical pedagogy that is epistemologically democratic and against human suffering and capitalist exploitation. These rigorous, democratic, critical standards for measuring the value of our scholarship, including this volume of essays, should be the same that we use to critique and transform the larger society in which we live and work.


Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics

Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics

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  • Author: Henry A. Giroux
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791405772
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324

This book introduces central assumptions that govern postmodern and feminist theory, offering educators a language to create new ways of conceiving pedagogy and its relationship to social, cultural, and intellectual life. It challenges some of the major categories and practices that have dominated educational theory and practice in the United States and in other countries since the beginning of the twentieth century. Rejecting the apolitical nature of some postmodern discourses and the separatism characteristic of some versions of cultural feminism, the contributors take a political stand rooted in concern with cultural and social justice. In so doing, these essays represent a linguistic shift regarding how we think about ethics, foundationalism, difference, and culture. The selections present a concern with developing a language that is critical of master narratives, racism, sexism, and those technologies of power in schools that subjugate, infantilize, and oppress students. The authors also develop a language of possibility that focuses on analyzing how power can be linked productively to knowledge, how teachers can construct classroom social relations based on notions of equity and justice, how critical pedagogy can contribute to an identity politics that is grounded in democratic relations, and how teachers can develop analyses that enable students to become self-reflective actors as they transform themselves and the conditions of their social existence.


Race, Culture, and the City

Race, Culture, and the City

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  • Author: Stephen Nathan Haymes
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9780791423837
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 190

This book proposes a pedagogy of black urban struggle and solidarity.


Critical Pedagogy

Critical Pedagogy

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  • Author: Peter McLaren
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9780820481470
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 428

Our educational system is in turmoil. Many would argue that it has been assaulted and oversimplified by the right. There is growing concern that we are becoming a liberal nation-state with an increasingly anti-liberal population and an electorate that is disinterested in politics. In this globalized world, the power of capital is so great that opposition to it is often discouraged and disheartened, leaving many citizens few political precepts by which to consider their institutions. This contemporary failure of vision has opened the way for the unimpeded return of the philosophy of the free market. As a result, social and educational policies are debated almost solely in terms of how they fit with the needs of the market. Social and ethical understandings are replaced by a failed economic theory that requires a radical constraint of our political and economic choices. Compassion for the poor, the market lets us know, is wrong-headed because any interference with the labor market will always result in unfortunate economic and social consequences. Moral issues are eclipsed by market needs. In Critical Pedagogy: Where Are We Now? the contributors discuss how the field of critical pedagogy should respond to such dire conditions in a way that is theoretically savvy and visionary, while concurrently contributing to the struggle to improve the lives of those most hurt by them. Critical Pedagogy is essential reading for every classroom teacher and pre-service teacher. It is also a valuable tool for use in undergraduate and graduate-level classrooms.


Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

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  • Author: Peter McLaren
  • Publisher: SUNY Press
  • ISBN: 9781438404141
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0


Capitalists and Conquerors

Capitalists and Conquerors

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  • Author: Peter McLaren
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • ISBN: 0742572536
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 372

Capitalists and Conquerors is a series of path-breaking essays in the political sociology of education on topics hotly debated within the educational community. In this volume Peter McLaren addresses some of the most daunting political challenges of the current times, including the globalization of capitalism, the United States' drive towards world domination, strategies, tactics and models of resistance to neoliberalism and the ravages of empire-building, the role of the educator as a social agent and public citizen, the purposes and possibilities of public schooling, and the struggle for socialism. As a Marxist-humanist philosopher and social theorist, McLaren is able to offer new philosophical premises and socialist principles for building an alternative to capitalism. The passion, poetry and fierce political conviction for which McLaren is known is very much present in this volume.


Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux

Reading & Teaching Henry Giroux

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  • Author: Clar Doyle
  • Publisher: Peter Lang
  • ISBN: 9780820481753
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 196

"Henry Giroux is one of the world's leading contemporary critical, social, educational, and cultural theorists. Reading and Teaching Henry Giroux demonstrates how his writings can be used in universities, schools, and in cultural production in a very practical fashion. Giroux's works, along with the voices of students and teachers will enable professors, teachers, cultural workers, public intellectuals, policymakers, parents, and students to work toward building democratic societies."--Publisher's website.