Rethinking Citizenship A Theory and Practice of Contemporary Critical Education

by Vinson, Kevin D.; Ross, E. Wayne; Steinberg, Shirley R.; Araujo Freire, Ana Maria

• ISBN13: 9781441147356
• ISBN10: 1441147357
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-04-10
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Are we, as educators, preparing students to be effective citizens in a society that no longer is? Rethinking Citizenship argues that recent technological shifts and changes have fundamentally altered society. Today's technological change means a difference in the very definition of society and is associated increasingly with the possibilities, problematics, and interpretations of globalization and of neoliberal and neoconservative cultural economics, some of today's most significant and contested concepts. With respect to critical pedagogy, these shifts present both problems and possibilities, specifically with respect to social justice. What is meaningful citizenship in an age of separated connectedness or connected separation? What are the implications of these technological developments for critical pedagogy-inspired citizenship education? How might mechanisms such as surveillance and spectacle help us understand contemporary society and its imperatives for citizenship and citizenship education? In light of these issues, Vinson and Ross brilliantly work towards a contemporary critical pedagogy and its implications for citizenship education.

Author Biography

E. Wayne Ross is Professor of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author and editor of many books, including Redrawing the Lines: The Radical Possibilities of Social Studies Education.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction: Connectedness in Separation and Separation in Connectedness2.(Re)introducing Critical Pedagogy: Principles, Problematics, and Citizenship3.Surveillance and Spectacle4.The Technological and the Dialogical5.Democracy and Education Revisited6.Schooling and Resistance in Theory and Practice7.Dangerous Citizenship: The Everyday Life ImperativeBibliographyIndex