Revolutionizing Pedagogy

"An extraordinary emancipatory work: bravely negotiating the globalized toxic ruins of neo-liberalism. This is a liberatory project that embraces building a more just and democratic social world, transforming the ashes of oppressive pedagogical practices into a universe of critical and creative revolutionary possibility." - Karen Anijar, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University "This volume provides both a much-needed political and economic critique of the dominant neoliberal reforms in the economy and education, and a theoretical and pedagogical path towards a democratic society and schools. I commend the contributors for their intellectual and political courage." - David Hursh, University of Rochester, and author of High-Stakes Testing and the Decline of Teaching and Learning "Revolutionizing Pedagogy: Education for Social Justice Within and Beyond Global Neoliberalism is an edited volume about education. But it isn?t about education in the sense of learning how to fit in with the existing social order. Rather, the ten essayists whose works are featured in this edited volume wish to bring our institutions more in line with what we profess to believe, and in doing so create educational systems which might actually work toward solving social problems." - Education Review

Sheila Macrine is the Chair of the Teaching & Learning Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Preface; M.Montero Introduction; S.Macrine PART I: FRAMEWORKDS FOR ORGANIZING PEDAGOGY A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, or a Sheep in Wolf's Clothing: Resistance to Educational Reform in Chile; J.Pinkney Pastrana Education Rights, Education Policies and Inequality in South Africa; S.Vally , E.Motala & B.Ramadiro Taking on the Corporatization of Public Education: What Teacher Education Can Do; P.Leistyna Critical Pedagogy in the Shadows of Empires; P.McLaren & S.Macrine PART II: STRATEGIES FOR PRACTICING CRITICAL PEDAGOGY Class, Capital and Education in this Neoliberal and Neoconservative Period; D.Hill Hijacking Public Schooling: The Epicentre of Neo Radical Centrism; J.Paraskeva Defending Dialectics: Rethinking the Neo-Marxist Turn in Critical Education Theory; W.Au Critical Teaching as the Counter-Hegemony to Neo-liberalism; J.Smyth Empowering Education: Freire, Cynicism and a Pedagogy of Action; R.Van Heertum Teachers MatterDon't They?: Placing Teachers and Their Work in the Global Knowledge Economy; S.L.Robertson Afterword: After Neoliberalism: Which Way Capitalism?; D.Hursh