Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts

Gustavo Fischman, Heinz Sunker, Peter Ph. D. McLaren

Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 - Education - 367 pages

We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions--a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. The efforts of countless teachers, activists, and families working and living in poor areas around the world are labeled as failures, entirely discredited on the basis of their expendability in relation to capital gains, or simply ignored. In response to these oppressive and challenging conditions, this book's contributors--a group of committed educators and activists working in an ethos of solidarity across geopolitical and geographical borders--have advanced arguments and strategies that link educational transformation to the larger struggle to transform oppressive social relations. In a clear attempt to move beyond both nostalgia and romanticism, Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts draws from a range of viewpoints-conceptual and thematic, transnational and crosscultural, First World and Third World--to articulate new directions for teachers and activists working to demonstrate that another education, and indeed, another world, is possible.

Contents

• New Labour Globalization and Social Justice The Role of Education: 3
• State Theory and the Neoliberal Reconstruction of Schooling and Teacher Education: 23
• War Talk and the Shredding of the Social Contract Youth and the Politics of Domestic Militarization: 52
• The Posthistorical University? Prospects for Alternative Globalizations: 69
• Globalization September 11 and the Restructuring of Education: 87
• CRITICAL THEORIES: 113
• Postracial States: 115
• How Much Does Education Need the State?: 135
• Social Subjectivity and Mutual Recognition as Basic Terms of a Critical Theory of Education: 145
• Critical Theory and Pedagogy Theodor W Adorno and Max Horkheimers Contemporary Significance for a Critical Pedagogy: 154
• Education for Radical Humanization in Neoliberal Times A Review of Paulo Freires Later Work: 164
• Revolutionary Pedagogy in Media Culture Reading the Techno Capitalist Order of Education: 185
• Schooling and the Culture of Dominion Unmasking the Ideology of Standardized Testing: 207
• Patriarchal Family Terrorism and Globalization A Critical Feminist Pedagogical Approach: 223
• RADICAL PEDAGOGIES: 247
• Whose Lady of Guadalupe? Indigenous Performances Latinao Identities and the Postcolonial Project: 249
• Critical Revolutionary Pedagogy after September 11 A Marxist Response: 263
• Paulo Freire and Digital Youth in Marginal Spaces: 293
• Intercultural Education A Contribution to Peace in the Developing Global Society?: 307
• The Work of Performativity Staging Social Justice at the University of Southern California: 317
• Is There Any Space for Hope? Teacher Education and Social Justice in the Age of Globalization and Terror: 343
• Index: 359
• About the Contributors: 363

About the author

Gustavo E. Fischman is assistant professor of education at Arizona State University. Peter McLaren is professor of education at the University of California at Los Angeles. Heinz Sünker is professor of education at Wuppertal University, Germany. Colin Lankshear is Professorial Research Fellow in Education at the University of Ballarat, Australia.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Editors: Gustavo Fischman, Heinz Sunker, Peter Ph. D. McLaren
• Contributor: Gustavo Fischman
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
• ISBN: 0742530728, 9780742530720
• Length: 367 pages
• Subjects: Education / Aims & Objectives; Education / Comparative