In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid controversial issues altogether in preference for "safe" knowledge and "safe" teaching practices. Diana Hess interrupts this dangerous trend by providing readers a spirited and detailed argument for why curricula and teaching based on controversial issues are truly crucial at this time. Through rich...
In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educato...
In 'Critical Perspectives on bell hooks', contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on bell hooks' work where she has been most influential. It will be useful for scholars, professors, and students interested in issues of race, class and gender.
In 'Critical Perspectives on bell hooks', contributors in the field of education, philosophy, and social work offer critical reflections on bell hooks...
'Advocacy Leadership' lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new pedagogy, and a new leadership role definition in education.
'Advocacy Leadership' lays out a post-reform agenda that moves beyond the neo-liberal, competition framework to define a new accountability, a new ped...
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple-to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than articulating its own possibilities, critical pedagogy literature itself is often its own worst enemy in its call for transformation. With such challenges from both within and without, is the idea of liberatory pedagogy for social change out of reach or can critical educators really achieve the rather...
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple-to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitiou...
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple-to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than articulating its own possibilities, critical pedagogy literature itself is often its own worst enemy in its call for transformation. With such challenges from both within and without, is the idea of liberatory pedagogy for social change out of reach or can critical educators really achieve the rather...
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple-to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitiou...
Are our current ways of talking about "the problem of adolescence" really that different than those of past generations? For the past decade, Act Your Age has provided a provocative and now classic analysis of the accepted ways of viewing teens. By employing a groundbreaking "history of the present" methodology that resists traditional chronology, author Nancy Lesko analyzes both historical and present social and political factors that produce the presumed "natural adolescent." This resulting seminal work in the field of youth study forces readers to rethink the dominant...
Are our current ways of talking about "the problem of adolescence" really that different than those of past generations? For the past decade, A...
Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, Critical Curriculum Studies, argues that we...
Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world aro...
Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social justice to argue for a transformative curriculum that challenges existing inequity in social, educational, and economic relations. Making use of the work of important scholars such as Freire, Vygotsky, Hartsock, Harding, and others, Critical Curriculum Studies, argues that we must understand the...
Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students' understanding of the world around them. Wa...
Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school--and into incarceration--at extremely high rates. The dual calamity of underachievement in schools and violence in many communities across the country is often met with blame and cynicism, and with a host of hurtful and unproductive quick fixes: blaming educators, pitting schools against each other, turning solely to the private sector, and ratcheting up the...
Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results ...
