| Synopsis: |
This book explores issues related to the loss of democracy, neoliberalism, and the problems of globalization and their relevance to education in the United States, Britain and other countries today. Utilizing critical pedagogy, the authors examine the paradoxical roles of schooling in reproducing and legitimizing large-scale structural inequalities, along the axes of race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and disability and, at the same time, offering opportunities for individual mobility. By relating issues of power and powerlessness, new social arrangements can be imagined, constructed and challenged in education and social life in general. The book explores the following core areas: Attacks on the public sphere and public education The loss of democracy Teacher education, global capitalism and education Power and knowledge and resistance Critical literacy and pedagogy and praxis Revolutionary multiculturalism and activism Imagining the unimaginable. |