Revolutionizing Pedagogy Education for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neo-Liberalism

by Macrine, Sheila; McLaren, Peter; Hill, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780230607996
• ISBN10: 0230607993
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 along the axes of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability and, at the same time, to offer hope and opportunities for individual mobility. By relating issues of power, powerlessness and hegemony, new social arrangements can be imagined, constructed, and challenged in education and social life in general.

Author Biography

Sheila L. Macrine, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Montclair State University, NJ. Her research focuses on connecting cultural, political, and feminist frameworks to institutional and personal contexts of pedagogy, particularly as they relate the social imagination, progressive democratic education, and critical studies.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Frameworks for Organizing Pedagogy
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing or a Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Resistance to Educational Reform in Chile	p. 17
Education Rights, Education Policies, and Inequality in South Africa	p. 41
Taking on the Corporatization of Public Education: What Teacher Education Can Do	p. 65
Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy: The Struggle against the Oppression of Neoliberalism-A Conversation with Peter McLaren	p. 87
Strategies for Practicing the Pedagogy of Critique
Class, Capital, and Education in this Neoliberal and Neoconservative Period	p. 119
Defending Dialectics: Rethinking the Neo-Marxist Turn in Critical Education Theory	p. 145
Hijacking Public Schooling: The Epicenter of Neo-Radical Centrism	p. 167
Critical Teaching as the Counter-Hegemony to Neoliberalism	p. 187
Empowering Education: Freire, Cynicism, and a Pedagogy of Action	p. 211
Teachers MatteràDon't They? Placing Teachers and Their Work in the Global Knowledge Economy	p. 235
Afterword: After Neoliberalism? Which Way Capitalism?	p. 257
List of Contributors	p. 261
Index	p. 265
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