Learning and Social Difference

by Mayo,Peter

• ISBN13: 9781594512445
• ISBN10: 1594512442
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-12-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Carmel Borg is Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Malta Peter Mayo is Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, at the University of Malta

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction: Critical Pedagogy in Neoliberal Times	p. 1
International and National Policy Issues	p. 11
The EU Memorandum on Lifelong Learning: Old Wine in New Bottles?	p. 13
Social Difference, Cultural Arbitrary, and Identity: An Analysis of a National Curriculum Document in a Nonsecular Environment	p. 33
Improving the Face of Schools and Other Pedagogical Sites	p. 51
"Changing the Face of the School": Parental Involvement in a Working-Class Community	p. 53
Museum Education as Cultural Contestation	p. 75
Critical Pedagogy in International Perspective	p. 91
Gramsci and the Unitarian School: Paradoxes and Possibilities	p. 93
Making Sense of a Southern Postcolonial Context: A Freirean Perspective	p. 111
Critical Pedagogy and Citizenship	p. 129
Challenges for Critical Pedagogy in a Migratory Context	p. 149
Toward an Antiracist Agenda in Education: The Case of Malta	p. 151
Challenges for Critical Pedagogy: A Southern European Perspective	p. 167
References	p. 177
Name Index	p. 197
Subject Index	p. 199
About the Authors	p. 205
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