| Description |
xiv, 306 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The edge, critical studies in educational theory |
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Edge, critical studies in educational theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword / Sharon Welch -- Series Editors' Preface / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley Steinberg -- Introduction: Fashioning Los Olvidados in the Age of Cynical Reason -- Writing from the Margins: Geographies of Identity, Pedagogy, and Power / Peter McLaren and Henry A. Giroux -- Liberatory Politics and Higher Education: A Freirean Perspective -- The Ethnographer as Postmodern Flaneur: Critical Reflexivity and Posthybridity as Narrative Engagement -- Jean Baudrillard's Chamber of Horrors: From Marxism to Terrorist Pedagogy / Peter McLaren and Zeus Leonardo -- Gangsta Pedagogy and Ghettocentricity: The Hip-Hop Nation as Counterpublic Sphere -- Global Politics and Local Antagonisms: Research and Practice as Dissent and Possibility / Peter McLaren and Kris Gutierrez -- Provisional Utopias in a Postcolonial World: An Interview with Peter McLaren / Gert Biesta and Siebren Miedema -- Unthinking Whiteness, Rethinking Democracy: Critical Citizenship in Gringolandia. |
| Summary |
This work by one of North America's leading educational theorists and cultural critics culminates a decade of social analyses that focus on the political economy of schooling, Paulo Freire and literacy education, hip-hop culture, and multicultural education. McLaren also examines the work of Baudrillard as well as Bourdieu's reflexive sociology. Always in McLaren's work is a profound understanding of the relationship among advanced capitalism, the politics of knowledge, and the formation of identity. One of the central themes of this volume is the relationship between the political and the pedagogical for educators, activists, artists, and other cultural workers. McLaren argues that the central project ahead in the struggle for social justice is not so much the politics of diversity as the global decentering and dismantling of whiteness. This volume also contains an interview with the author. |
| Subject |
Critical pedagogy -- United States.
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Multicultural education -- United States.
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Postmodernism and education -- United States.
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| ISBN |
0813325714 (softcover) |
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9780813325712 (softcover) |
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0813325706 (hardcover) |
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9780813325705 (hardcover) |
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