Paulo Freire is one of the century's great thinkers on education and the politics of liberation. He is known mostly for his literacy campaigns in Latin America and Africa, and for his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, and his thinking continues to be rediscovered by generations of teachers, scholars, community activists and cultural workers in Europe and North America.
Paulo Freire is one of the century's great thinkers on education and the politics of liberation. He is known mostly for his literacy campaigns in Lati...
This book contributes to the radical literature on culture, identity and the politics of schooling. It addresses the challenge and the promise of school and social reform through what the author calls a critical multiculturalism. Peter McLaren's approach to what he calls predatory culture and his exploration of recent debates over the role of public institutions and the state within such culture offers the reader a combination of neo-Marxist and post-structuralist theory - referred to by the author as resistance of postmodernist critique. Readers are invited to construct a politics of...
This book contributes to the radical literature on culture, identity and the politics of schooling. It addresses the challenge and the promise of scho...
This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. While each author has his or her own specialty, the thread of shared dreams is portrayed in a call for solidarity. The separate viewpoints are drawn together to constitute a democratic platform for an enlightened critical education agenda. From narrative to critical ethnography, case studies explore the multicultural and power struggles of states, districts, and schools. Intimately connected to all contributions in this collection is the commitment of each author to...
This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. While each author has his...
This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagogy as forms of praxis to examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities.
This book brings together a group of top international scholars who consider Pedagogy of Critique, Revolutionary Pedagogy and Radical Critical Pedagog...