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Education and Public Choice
A Critical Account of the Invisible Hand in Education
Av Nesta Devine
Inbunden, 2004
1033 kr
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The single most important educational theory in schools and universities today is not derived from Dewey, Piaget, R. S. Peters, or an other significant researcher or theorist in education. It is public choice theory, which is derived from neo-classical economics. This work describes public choice …
Education, Literacy, and Humanization
Exploring the Work of Paulo Freire
E-bok, 2000
1397 kr
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The author adopts a holistic approach in exploring the ontological, epistemological, ethical, and pedagogical dimensions of Paulo Freire's thought. The book discusses Freire's approach to adult literacy education and investigates the political, dialogical, and critical aspects to the …
Michel Foucault
Materialism and Education
Av Mark Olssen
E-bok, 1999
1136 kr
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Although Foucault departs from Marxism, his own approach constitutes a form of consistent materialism which has theoretical implications for the analysis of social and educational discursive systems. In seeking to demonstrate a correct reading of Foucault, linguistic readings of his work, such as …
Political Relationship and Narrative Knowledge
A Critical Analysis of School Authoritarianism
E-bok, 2000
1136 kr
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Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school. He followed the political practices and episodes of the amalgamation in relation to their political and educational significance. The …
Anti-Racism, Feminism, and Critical Approaches to Education
Av Roxana Ng, Joyce Scane m. fl.
E-bok, 1995
561 kr
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This book maintains that there has not been sufficient dialogue and cross-fertilization between various forms of critical approaches to education, notably multicultural/anti-racist education, feminist pedagogy, and critical pedagogy. Contributors from Canada and the United States address …
Beyond Comfort Zones in Multiculturalism
Confronting the Politics of Privilege
E-bok, 1995
1169 kr
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For peoples whose legal agreements, treaties, and other accords and conventions with the United States have been violated, multiculturalism as a pedagogical tool often becomes suspect of reinforcing the continued reification and abstraction of their cultures and nations with little if any real …
Culture, Politics, and Irish School Dropouts
Constructing Political Identities
E-bok, 1995
909 kr
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This book summarizes structural, reproduction, and resistance theories of education and provides a social research approach to problems of social inequity. It analyzes how these perspectives contribute to the political analysis of the production of early school departures and the consequent …
Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in Schools
E-bok, 1998
1112 kr
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Multiracial students have unique needs that are not being met in schools, because teachers and school personnel assume that those needs are the same as those of monoracial minority children. Children of multiple races are, in fact, invisible in the schools. On school and federal forms, they are …
Ideology, Discourse, and School Reform
E-bok, 2003
741 kr
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Leonardo introduces an integrated theory of ideology that examines its necessary, negative, and positive functions. A three-dimensional theory highlights the concept of ideology during the reform process and links it to domination. Through an ideological critique of reform language, the book …
Anxious Identity
Education, Difference and Politics
E-bok, 2004
1169 kr
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This work is a systematic analysis of texts with arguments on political performance of representation and agency in education. The author critically examines discourses on the politics of difference including those of Paulo Freire, Claude Levi-Strauss, Iris M. Young, and Chantal Mouffe. Derrida's …
Critical Education Against Global Capitalism
Karl Marx and Revolutionary Critical Education
Av Paula Allman
E-bok, 2001
1136 kr
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In today's vernacular, Marx outed capitalism well over a century ago, but his explanation has been both ignored and misinterpreted by not only his detractors but also by many socialists and even a considerable number of Marxists as well. Today we are experiencing the full impact and suffering the …
Raising Curtains on Education
Drama as a Site for Critical Pedagogy
Av Clar Doyle
E-bok, 1993
424 kr
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Believing that transformation is possible and that it must come from within, Clar Doyle illustrates the vital connection between drama and critical pedagogy. Presuming that a practice informed by the theory of critical pedagogy is essential to achieve an emancipatory education, Doyle shows how well …
Teaching Against the Grain
Texts for a Pedagogy of Possibility
Av Roger Simon
E-bok, 1992
424 kr
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Conceiving of pedagogy as a form of cultural politics and teachers, therefore, as cultural workers, Simon offers a fresh vision of the notion of pedagogy. Grounded in an ethical and political stance devoted to the advancement of human dignity, Simon reflexively considers the basis on which teachers …
Cultural Pedagogy
Art/Education/Politics
Av David Trend
E-bok, 1992
437 kr
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In recent years, debates over culture and education have entered the public consciousness as never before. Politicians, bureaucrats, and scholars have credited these endeavors with the capacity to influence matters ranging from public morality to national productivity. Trend examines points at …
Postmodern Philosophical Critique and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Higher Education
Av Roger Mourad
E-bok, 1997
424 kr
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This work explores the philosophical positions of five postmodern thinkers—Lyotard, Rorty, Schrag, Foucault, and Derrida—to show how their critiques imply that scholars are unduly limited by the belief that inquiry is fundamentally about gaining knowledge of phenomena that are assumed to exist …
Beyond Liberation and Excellence
Reconstructing the Public Discourse on Education
Av David Purpel, H. Svi Shapiro
E-bok, 1995
530 kr
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The authors' goal is to explore how an alternative, politically viable public discourse on education can be constructed. They examine the kinds of conditions, concerns, and subjectivities that must be attended to in order to develop an effective and resonant new language that can re-focus the …
Coming Out in College
The Struggle for a Queer Identity
E-bok, 1994
386 kr
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Coming out is the process of acknowledging same-sex attractions to oneself and to others. It is both a personal and a public process. For many gay and bisexual students, college marks a pivotal point where for the first time they feel free to explore their same-sex attractions. This book is about …
Critical Multiculturalism
Uncommon Voices in a Common Struggle
Av Barry Kanpol, Peter McLaren
E-bok, 1995
545 kr
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This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. While each author has his or her own specialty, the thread of shared dreams is portrayed in a call for solidarity. The separate viewpoints are drawn together to constitute a …
Critical Pedagogy
An Introduction
Av Barry Kanpol
E-bok, 1999
415 kr
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Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. It is a cultural-political tool that takes seriously the notion of human differences, particularly those related to race, class, and gender. Critical pedagogy seeks …
Culture and Difference
Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States
E-bok, 1995
530 kr
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The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact …
Teachers as Intellectuals
Toward a Critical Pedagogy of Learning
Inbunden, 1988
957 kr
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a book for all practitioners and all members of the greater community. Giroux demands reader involvement, transformation, and empowerment. He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative. Rather, school …
Voices in Architectural Education
Cultural Politics and Pedagogy
Inbunden, 1991
1095 kr
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This book is a unique collection of new and existing articles about progressive architectural teaching and learning. It is about restructuring architectural education--a project that defines itself within a transformative definition of society. Dialectically linking architectural education and …
Toward a Critical Politics of Teacher Thinking
Mapping the Postmodern
Inbunden, 1993
1033 kr
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This book calls for a new type of teacher education that empowers teachers to be self-directed professionals. Joe Kincheloe believes that the current trend of teaching teachers to learn an empirical knowledge base which they then implement in their classrooms is demeaning to teachers and teaches …
Raising Curtains on Education
Drama as a Site for Critical Pedagogy
Av Clar Doyle
Inbunden, 1993
1095 kr
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Believing that transformation is possible and that it must come from within, Clar Doyle illustrates the vital connection between drama and critical pedagogy. Presuming that a practice informed by the theory of critical pedagogy is essential to achieve an emancipatory education, Doyle shows how well …
Education and the Postmodern Condition
Inbunden, 1995
1033 kr
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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others. This collection of 10 essays brings …
Positioning Subjects
Psychoanalysis and Critical Educational Studies
Inbunden, 1996
1033 kr
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This book addresses an area that is theoretically undeveloped in educational studies—the constitution of the human subject. The author uses psychoanalysis to explore this gap in critical studies of education. Educational progressivism overestimates the power of rationality and represses any …
Naming the Multiple
Poststructuralism and Education
Av Michael Peters, Michael Peters
Inbunden, 1998
1063 kr
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Poststructuralism—as a name for a mode of thinking, a style of philosophizing, a kind of writing—has exercised a profound influence upon contemporary Western thought and the institution of the university. As a French and predominantly Parisian affair, poststructuralism is inseparable from the …
Literacy in the Library
Negotiating the Spaces Between Order and Desire
Inbunden, 1997
1033 kr
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This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as well as provides an interesting case study of border crossing. The book interrogates two accounts of social reproduction and proposes a third. Students at …
Rituals, Ceremonies, and Cultural Meaning in Higher Education
Inbunden, 2000
1239 kr
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College students and graduates have fond memories of campus events such as commencement, founder's days, convocations, and baccalaureate. These events, defined as rites of passage, secular ceremonies, or cultural performances, create a special feel to a campus remembered for years to come. …
Community in Motion
Theatre for Development in Africa
Av L. Dale Byam
Inbunden, 1999
1095 kr
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Africa has internal cultural resources that have positively influenced its development. Community in Motion explores the relationship between theatre and Freirian pedagogy. It underscores the urgency of refocusing development strategies on human rather than technical resources by showing how …
