Description

We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions_a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. The efforts of countless teachers, activists, and families working and living in poor areas around the world are labeled as failures, entirely discredited on the basis of their expendability in relation to capital gains, or simply ignored. In response to these oppressive and challenging conditions, this book's contributors_a group of committed educators and activists working in an ethos of solidarity across geopolitical and geographical borders_have advanced arguments and strategies that link educational transformation to the larger struggle to transform oppressive social relations. In a clear attempt to move beyond both nostalgia and romanticism, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts draws from a range of viewpoints-conceptual and thematic, transnational and crosscultural, First World and Third World_to articulate new directions for teachers and activists working to demonstrate that another education, and indeed, another world, is possible.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 New Labour, Globalization And Social Justice: The Role Of Education
Chapter 3 State Theory And The Neo-Liberal Reconstruction Of Schooling And Teacher Education
Chapter 4 War Talk and the Shredding of the Social Contract: Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization
Chapter 5 The Post-Historical University? Prospects For Alternative Globalizations
Chapter 6 Globalization, September 11, And The Restructuring Of Education
Chapter 7 Post-Racial States
Chapter 8 How Much Does Education Need the State
Chapter 9 Social Subjectivity And Mutual Recognition As Basic Terms Of A Critical Theory Of Education
Chapter 10 Critical Theory and Pedagogy: Adorno and Horkheirmer's contemporary Significance for a Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 11 Education For Radical Humanization In Neo-Liberal Times -A Review Of Paulo Freire's Later Work
Chapter 12 Revolutionary Pedagogy In Consumer-Media Culture: Reading The New Capitalist Order Of Education
Chapter 13 Schooling And The Culture Of Dominion: Unmasking The Ideology Of Standardized Testing
Chapter 14 Family Terrorism And Globalization: A Critical Feminist Perspective
Chapter 15 Whose Lady Of Guadalupe? Indigenous Performances, Latina/O Identities, And The Postcolonial Project
Chapter 16 Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy At Ground Zero:Renewing The Educational Left After 9-11
Chapter 17 Paulo Freire And Digital Youth In Marginal Spaces
Chapter 18 Intercultural Education- A Contribution to peace in the Developing World-Society?
Chapter 19 The Work Of Performativity: Staging Social Justice At The University Of Southern California
Chapter 20 Is There Any Space For Hope? Teacher Education And Social Justice In The Age Globalization And Terror

Product details

Published Dec 10 2004
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 384
ISBN 9780742530720
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 231 x 154 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Gustavo E. Fischman

Anthology Editor

Peter McLaren

Anthology Editor

Heinz Sünker

Anthology Editor

Colin Lankshear

Contributor

Mike Cole

Contributor

Antonia Darder

Contributor

Henry Giroux

Contributor

Rhonda Hammer

Contributor

Dave Hill

Contributor

Donna Houston

Contributor

Douglas Kellner

Contributor

Colin Lankshear

Contributor

Peter Mayo

Contributor

Ludwig Pongratz

Contributor

Laura Pulido

Contributor

Erika Richter

Contributor

Albert Scherr

Contributor

Juha Suoranta

Contributor

Tuukka Tomperi

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