If Classrooms Matter : Progressive Visions of Educational Environments

ISBN-13: 9780415971584 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str.

Jeffrey Di Leo

Opis

As more and more students, especially those juggling school and work, rarely see a conventional classroom, US scholars of education, other social sciences, and the humanities explore how methods and the philosophy of education can and must account for the new learning environments. Among their topics are critical pedagogy in a time of permanent war

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Table of Contents
Introduction
Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Walter R. Jacobs, Place, Pedagogy, Politics: Reflections on Contemporary Classroom Reconfigurations
Section I--The Politics of Pedagogical Space
1. Henry Giroux, The Politics of Public Pedagogy
2. Stanley Aronowitz, Education, Social Class, and the Sites of Pedagogy
3. Michael Apple, Interrupting the Right: On Doing Critical Educational Work in Conservative Times
4. Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Permanent War
Section II--Re-Ruling the Classroom: The Possibilities of Places
5. Elizabeth Ellsworth, The U.S. Holocaust Museum as a Scene of Pedagogical Address
6. Carol Becker, Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art
7. Andrew Hoberek, Professionalism: What Graduate Students Need
8. Sharon O'Dair, Class Work: Site of Egalitarian Activism or Site of Embourgeoisement
Section III--The Actualities of Media Interventions
9. Jacqueline Bobo, Media, Activism, and the Classroom: Teaching Black Feminist Cultural Criticism
10. David Trend, Back to Cyberschool: Some of the Learning, None of the Fun
11. TyAnna K. Herrington, Where in the World is the Global Classroom Project?
12. Mark Poster, History in the Digital Domain

O autorze

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, is editor of the journal Symploke.

Walter R. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota General College.