Practical Critical Educator

"Cooper and White's inspiring and imposing collection brings together and publishes for the first time some of the best writers and writing from across the world in critical theory and critical pedagogical practice... Karyn Cooper's and Robert White's book makes critical theory practical for any and all teachers who are authentically concerned about promoting social justice among their students and in their world. Modest, not messianic in personality, witty not weary in disposition, compassionate rather than cutting in their engagements with those around them, Cooper and White have produced a book that reflects their vision as professionals and their values as people. If you want to make a difference, and want to change the world, this is the book that will get you started and keep you going." (Andy Hargreaves, Boston College)

• Critical literacy for a democratic education: Critical literacy in action: action research in a grade three classroom.- A critical issue in critical literacy: the "popularity effect".- Soup kitchen democracy: practical, critical lessons in theory.- Critical literacy educators at work: examining dispositions, discursive resources and repertoires of practice. Critical learning for a democratic education: Critical theory for schooling-education and society: grounded in political economy.- Shared authority in democratic classrooms; communities-always-in-the-making.- Teaching the queer character of racism.- Not rocket science: on the limits of conservative pedagogy: Critical leadership for a democratic education.- Duplicity, democracy and domesticity: educational leadership for democratic action.- Ghosts in the procedures: notes on teaching and subjectivity in a new era.- Reaching out and reaching in: "we had to develop ourselves first, before anybody can develop us".-Opening the text: voicing a future. Epilogue - Literacy, learning and leadership: a critical focus on democratic schooling.- Index.