Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy: The Meaning Of Democratic Education In Unsettling Times

by Carlson,Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780813391380
• ISBN10: 0813391385
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1999-04-02
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

"The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in politics, economics, popular culture, and social theory associated with postmodernism. These shifts, the authors"

Author Biography

Dennis Carlson is associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Michael W. Apple is professor in the Department of Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Dennis Carlson is associate professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and director of the Center for Education and Cultural Studies at Miami University of Ohio. Michael W. Apple is professor in the Department of Education and Curriculum Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface, Shirley Steinberg	vii
Joe L. Kincheloe
Peter McLaren
Introduction: Critical Educational Theory in Unsettling Times	1	(40)
Dennis Carlson
Michael W. Apple
Part 1 State Educational Policy and Curriculum Reform in Unsettling Times
Education in Unsettling Times: Public Intellectuals and the Promise of Cultural Studies	41	(20)
Henry A. Giroux
Pulp Fictions? Education, Markets, and the Information Superhighway	61	(31)
Jane Kenway
Citizens of Consumers? Continuity and Change in Contemporary Education Policy	92	(31)
Geoff Whitly
Respondent: ``Distressed Worlds''---Social Justice Through Educational Transformations	110	(13)
Madeleine Armot
Part 2 Education, Identity, and the Other
Becoming Right: Education and the Formation of Conservative Movements	123	(26)
Michael W. Apple
Anita Oliver
On Shaky Grounds: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late Twentieth Century	149	(25)
Michelle Fine
Lois Weis
Judi Addelston
Self and Education: Reversals and Cycles	174	(29)
Philip Wexler
Respondent: Self Education--Identity, Self, and the New Politics of Education	191	(12)
Dennis Carlson
Part 3 Reading Curriculum Texts
Danger in the Safety Zone: Notes on Race, Resentment, and the Discourse of Crime, Violence, and Suburban Security	203	(23)
Cameron McCarthy
Alicia P. Rodriguez
Stephen David
Shuaib Meecham
Heriberto Godina
K. E. Suppritya
Carrie Willson-Brown
Fiction, Fantasy, and Femininities: Popular Texts and Young Women's Literacies	226	(18)
Linda K. Christian-Smith
Image Is Nothing: Struggling to Unsettle Basal Readers and More	244	(27)
Patrick Shannon
Patricia Crawford
Respondent: Loose Change---The Production of Texts	264	(7)
William G. Tierney
Part 4 Pedagogy and Empowerment
On the Limits to Empowerment Through Critical and Feminist Pedagogies	271	(18)
Jennifer M. Gore
Who Will Survive America? Pedagogy as Cultural Preservation	289	(16)
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Global Politics and Local Antagonisms: Research and Practice as Dossent and Possibility	305	(36)
Peter McLaren
Kris Gutierrez
Respondent: Pedagogy for an Oppositional Community	334	(7)
Kathleen Weiler
About the Editors and Contributors	341	(2)
Index	343