If Classrooms Matter

Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Assistant Professor of English and Philosophy at the University of Houston-Victoria, is editor of the journal Symploke. Walter R. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the University of Minnesota General College.

• Table of ContentsIntroductionJeffrey R. Di Leo and Walter R. Jacobs, Place, Pedagogy, Politics: Reflections on Contemporary Classroom ReconfigurationsSection I--The Politics of Pedagogical Space1. Henry Giroux, The Politics of Public Pedagogy2. Stanley Aronowitz, Education, Social Class, and the Sites of Pedagogy3. Michael Apple, Interrupting the Right: On Doing Critical Educational Work in Conservative Times4. Peter McLaren and Nathalia Jaramillo, Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Permanent WarSection II--Re-Ruling the Classroom: The Possibilities of Places5. Elizabeth Ellsworth, The U.S. Holocaust Museum as a Scene of Pedagogical Address6. Carol Becker, Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art7. Andrew Hoberek, Professionalism: What Graduate Students Need8. Sharon O'Dair, Class Work: Site of Egalitarian Activism or Site of EmbourgeoisementSection III--The Actualities of Media Interventions9. Jacqueline Bobo, Media, Activism, and the Classroom: Teaching Black Feminist Cultural Criticism10. David Trend, Back to Cyberschool: Some of the Learning, None of the Fun11. TyAnna K. Herrington, Where in the World is the Global Classroom Project?12. Mark Poster, History in the Digital Domain