Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy

ISBN-13: 9781594512445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 218 str.

Carmel Borg; Peter Mayo

Opis

Exploring how global changes affect education today, in the classroom and in local, national, and international contexts, this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique), immigration, antiracist education, parental involvement in schools, national curricula, Paulo Freire's legacy, insights from the work of Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana, and Gramsci's writings on the school. There are both theoretical and empirically grounded chapters in this volume.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Critical Pedagogy in Neoliberal Times Part I. International and National Policy Issues 2. The EU Memorandum on Lifelong Learning: Old Wine in New Bottles? 3. Social Difference, Cultural Arbitrary, and Identity: An Analysis of a National Curriculum Document in a No secular Environment Part II. Improving the Face of Schools and Other Pedagogical Sites 4. Changing the Face of the School: Parental Involvement in a Working-Class Community 5. Museum Education as Cultural Contestation Part III. Critical Pedagogy in International Perspective 6. Gramsci and the Unitarian School: Paradoxes and Possibilities 7. Making Sense of a Southern Postcolonial Context: A Freirean Perspective 8. Critical Pedagogy and Citizenship Part IV. Challenges for Critical Pedagogy in a Migratory Context 9. Toward an Antiracist Agenda in Education: The Case of Malta 10. Challenges for Critical Pedagogy: A Southern European Perspective

O autorze

Peter Mayo, Carmel Borg