Description
In this politically and democratically urgent collection, George Yancy and contributors argue that more than ever, we are in need of classrooms that function "dangerously"—that is, classrooms where people are not afraid to engage in critical discussions that call into question difficult political times. Collectively they demonstrate the ways activist authors and scholars must be prepared to engage in risk and vulnerability as a defense of our democratic right to practice forms of pedagogical transgression. Ideal for scholars and students of critical pedagogy, philosophy of education, and political theory, this collection delineates the necessity of critical consciousness through education, and provides ways of speaking back against authoritarian control of imaginative and critical capacities.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Urgency of Refusing Adjustment, George Yancy; 1. Uncovering and Challenging White Supremacy, Stephen Brookfield; 2. White Ignorance, Epistemic Injustice and the Challenges of Teaching for Critical Social Consciousness, Barbara Applebaum; 3. Higher Education and Pedagogy in the Age of Trump, Henry A. Giroux; 4. The Worry Well: Teaching in these Ignominious Times, Becky Thompson; 5. Teaching Students Systemic Racism Theory and Autopathy: The Age of White Nationalism, Kimberley Ducey and Joe R. Feagan; 6. Education and the International Division of Labor, Power, and Prestige, William David Hart; 7. A Season of Light and Darkness: On Education and President Donald J. Trump, Josiah Ulysses Young III; 8. Complicating Resistance: Intersectionality, Liberation, and Democracy, Jennifer Gale de Saxe; 9. Educating for Democracy: Lessons from the Life of Myles Horton, Stephen Preskill; 10. The Beast Behind the Wall: Critical Teaching in Terrible Times, Ira Shor; 11. "Do Something Ethical": Critical Thinking, Theorizing, and Political Will, Joy James; 12. Education for Democracy: The Daunting Task Before Us, Bill Bywater; 13. Truth and (Trump's) Method: The Instability of Critical Thinking in Education, Kal Alston; 14. Teaching in Times of Anti-Academic Provocation, Cris Mayo
