Full Description
This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness. The challenge for critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century, from this point of view, includes contributing to the manifestation of a truly global critical pedagogy that is epistemologically democratic and against human suffering and capitalist exploitation. These rigorous, democratic, critical standards for measuring the value of our scholarship, including this volume of essays, should be the same that we use to critique and transform the larger society in which we live and work.
Contents
Preface: Neoliberalism Trumping The Politics of Hope: A Critical Intervention to Challenging the Corporate Takeover of Schools and Society; Bradley Porfilio.
Introduction: From Toussaint L'Ouverture to Paulo Freire: Complexity and Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: A New Generation of Scholars; Curry Stephenson Malott
Part I. Social Theory and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 1. When Theory Walks With Praxis: Critical Pedagogy and the Life of Transnational and Postcolonial Subjects of Color; Pierre Orelus.
Chapter 2. A Placed-Based Critical Pedagogy in Turbulent Times: Restoring Hope for Alternative Futures; Martin and Kitty Te Riele.
Chapter 3. Radical Hermeneutics, Adolescence, and Twenty-First Century Critical Pedagogy; Kip Kline.
Chapter 4. Disrupting Heteronormativity Through Critical Pedagogy and Queer Theory; Heather Hickman.
Chapter 5. Power Through Resistance: Why Critical Theory Can Prevent Educators From Going Back to the Future; Julie Gorlewski.
Chapter 6. For a Multiple-Armed Love: Ecopedagogy for a Posthuman Age; Richard Kahn.
Part II. Psychology and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 7. Individual|Collective Human Needs: (Re)theorizing Maslow Using Critical, Sociocultural, Feminist, and Indigenous Lenses; Tricia M. Kress, Christopher J. Avilés, Cindy Taylor, and Melissa Winchell.
Part III. Educational Reform and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 8. The Magnificent Elephant That Was Promised Showed Up Lame: The 10-Year Development Plan of Basic Education and Education for All (EFA) in Burkina Faso; Touorouzou Herve Some.
Chapter 9. The Quest for a Critical Pedagogy of Democracy; Paul Carr.
Part IV. Knowledge Production/Research Methodology and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 10. Developing Curricular Standpoint: "Strong Objectivity" and the Politics of School Knowledge; Wayne Au.
Chapter 11. Writing We: Collaborative Text in Educational Research; Christina Ann Siry and Carolyne Ali-Khan.
Chapter 12. Off-loading Self/Other/World Responsibilities: Confronting Questionable Ethics in Youth Engagement in Critical Pedagogy; Darren Lund and Jim Paul.
Chapter 13. Power Personified: Graduate Students Negotiating Hollywood Education; Catherine Lalonde.
Part V. Teacher Education and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 14. Struggles to Eliminate the Tenacious Four Letter "F" Word in Education; Vivian García López.
Chapter 15. Through the Eyes of Two Teacher Educators: Building Alternatives to the Gaze and Surveillance Mechanisms in Teacher Education; Abraham P. DeLeon and Emily Daniels.
Chapter 16. Toward Mainstreaming Critical Peace Education in U.S. Teacher Education; Edward J. Brantmeier.
Chapter 17. Nice Girls Become Teachers: Experiences of Female First-Generation College Students Majoring in Elementary Education; Carrie Freie and Kirstin R. Bratt.
Part VI. Classroom Teaching and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 18. Visions of Hope and Despair: Investigating the Potential of Critical Science Education; Andrew Gilbert.
Chapter 19. Enacting a Transformative Education; Kurt Love.
Chapter 20. To Upend the Boat of Teacher Mediocrity: The Challenges and Possibilities of Critical Race Pedagogy in Diverse Urban Classrooms; Daniel D. Liou and René González.
Part VII. Technology and Critical Pedagogy
Chapter 21. Scaling the Classroom Walls: Lessons Learned Outside of Schools About Social Media Activism and Education; Tricia M. Kress and Donna DeGennaro.
Chapter 22. Learners and Oppressed Peoples of the World, Wikify!: Wikiversity as a Global Critical Pedagogy; Juha Suoranta.
Chapter 23. Emancipatory Technologies: A Dialogue Between Hackers and Freire; Joseph Carroll-Miranda.
About the Authors.
