Pedagogies of Difference

Peter Pericles Trifonas is Assistant Professor at the Center for Social Justice and Cultural Studies in Education and the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto.

"Pedagogies of Difference provides an important set of statements about the complicated nature of the relations between education and differential power. But it also goes farther. It shows possibilities as well as limits, and in the process helps us envision a more socially just education." -- Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Education University of Wisconsin, Madison and author of Educating the "Right" Way"Through eclectic models of inquiry, Pedagogies ofDifference rigorously reconceptualizes the link between difference and pedagogy as a precondition of refashioning democratic futures through teaching and learning. Here, the contributors rethink the inventive but also reifying particularities of difference, insisting upon an ethics of solidarity committed to a practical politics of educational equity and social justice." -- Warren Crichlow, co-editor of Race, Identity, and Representationin Education

• 1. Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy, Carlos Tejeda, Manuel Esponoza, and Kris Guiterrez2. Challenging the Construction of Difference as Deficit: Where Are Identity, Intellect, Imagination, and Power in the New Regime of Truth? Jim Cummins3. Derrida, Pedagogy, and the Calculation of the Subject, Michael Peters4. Pedagogies of Difference, Race, and Representation: Film as a Site of Translation and Politics, Henry A. Giroux5. Discomforting Truths: The Emotional Terrain of Understanding Difference, Megan Boler and Michalinos Zembylas6. The Struggle for Happiness: Commidified Black Masculinities, Vernacular Culture, and Homoerotic Desires, Rinaldo Walcott7. Queer Pedagogies: Camping Up the Difference, Marla Morris8. Inside Noah's Tent: The Sodomitical Genesis of Race in the Christian Imagination William F. Pinar9. Toward an Integrative Approach to Equity in Education, Roxana Ng10. Toward a Deconstructive Pedagogy of Différance, Peter Pericles Trifonas