| Description |
ix, 356 pages ; 24 cm |
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The edge, critical studies in educational theory |
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Edge, critical studies in educational theory.
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| Contents |
Series Editors' Preface / Shirley Steinberg, Joe L. Kincheloe and Peter McLaren -- 1. Introduction: Critical Educational Theory in Unsettling Times / Dennis Carlson and Michael W. Apple -- 2. Education in Unsettling Times: Public Intellectuals and the Promise of Cultural Studies / Henry A. Giroux -- 3. Pulp Fictions? Education, Markets, and the Information Superhighway / Jane Kenway -- 4. Citizens or Consumers? Continuity and Change in Contemporary Education Policy / Geoff Whitty -- Respondent: "Distressed Worlds" - Social Justice Through Educational Transformations / Madeleine Arnot -- 5. Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements / Michael W. Apple and Anita Oliver -- 6. On Shaky Grounds: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis and Judi Addelston -- 7. Self and Education: Reversals and Cycles / Philip Wexler |
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Respondent: Self Education - Identity, Self, and the New Politics of Education / Dennis Carlson -- 8. Danger in the Safety Zone: Notes on Race, Resentment, and the Discourse of Crime, Violence, and Suburban Security / Cameron McCarthy, Alicia P. Rodriguez and Stephen David [et al.] -- 9. Fiction, Fantasy, and Femininities: Popular Texts and Young Women's Literacies / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- 10. Image Is Nothing: Struggling to Unsettle Basal Readers and More / Patrick Shannon and Patricia Crawford -- Respondent: Loose Change - The Production of Texts / William G. Tierney -- 11. On the Limits to Empowerment Through Critical and Feminist Pedagogies / Jennifer M. Gore -- 12. Who Will Survive America? Pedagogy as Cultural Preservation / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- 13. Global Politics and Local Antagonisms: Research and Practice as Dissent and Possibility / Peter McLaren and Kris Gutierrez -- Respondent: Pedagogy for an Oppositional Community / Kathleen Weiler |
| Summary |
The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These shifts include the fragmentation of established power blocs, the emergence of a politics of identity, growing inequalities between the haves and the have-nots in a new global economy, and the rise in influence of popular culture in defining who we are. In the academy, postmodernism has been associated with the emergence of new theoretical perspectives that are unsetting the way we think about education. These shifts, the authors suggest, are deeply contradictory and may lead in divergent political directionssome of them quite dangerous. Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy examines these issues with regard to four broad domains of educational inquiry: state educational policy and curriculum reform, student identity formation, the curriculum as a text, and critical pedagogy |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Critical pedagogy.
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Democracy.
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Education -- Political aspects.
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Postmodernism and education.
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| Author |
Apple, Michael W.
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Carlson, Dennis.
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| LC no. |
98011334 |
| ISBN |
0813390265 (hardcover) |
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