Re-Visioning Education

DOUGLAS KELLNER received his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1973 at Columbia University and then taught 25 years in the Philosophy Department at the University of Texas-Austin, followed by 25 years of teaching in the Department of Education and Information Studies at UCLA and guest professorships throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Kellner is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism; Kellner has edited six volumes of the collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, which have appeared with Routledge. Kellner’s Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombings to the Virginia Tech Massacre won the 2008 AESA award as the best book on education. With Meenakshi Gigi Durham, Kellner had co-edited Media and Cultural Studies. KeyWorks, Blackwell (second edition 2012); withwith Rhonda Hammer, Kellner has co-edited Media/ Cultural Studies: Critical Approaches (Peter Lang Publishing, 2009); and with Stephen Bronner has co-edited The Critical Theory Reader. His most recent books are Technology and Democracy: Toward A Critical Theory of Digital Technologies, Technopolitics, and Technocapitalism (Springer Publications, 2021) and Critical Theory and Pedagogy. Towards The Reconstruction of Education (Peter Lang, 2023).

• Steve Gennaro/Douglas Kellner: Neoliberalism, Technology, and Radical Pedagogy for the Re-Construction of Education in the 21st Century – Multiple Critical Literacies and Radical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society – Key Components of Critical Cultural Studies – School Shootings, Crises of Masculinities, and Challenges to Education – Douglas Kellner, "Dangerous New Dimension to Mass Shootings in America," Interview with Joanie Harman – The Conflicts of Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, and Democracy – Critical Reflections on Marcuse, Freire, and Radical Pedagogy – Concluding Thoughts on Multiple Critical Literacies and the Reconstruction of Education – Afterword.