Critical Social Thought
Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship: Narratives From the Unofficial Curriculum
1st Edition
By Rita Verma
March 23, 2017
Critical Peace Education and Global Citizenship offers narrative accounts representing multiple ways teacher and learner activists have come to realize possibilities for peace and reconciliation through unofficial curricula. With these narratives, the book demonstrates the connections between ...
The Critical Turn in Education: From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race
1st Edition
By Isaac Gottesman
March 25, 2016
The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the 1960s to the contemporary critical landscape. The book begins by tracing the first waves of ...
The End of Public Schools: The Corporate Reform Agenda to Privatize Education
1st Edition
By David W. Hursh
November 20, 2015
The End of Public Schools analyzes the effect of foundations, corporations, and non-governmental organizations on the rise of neoliberal principles in public education. By first contextualizing the privatization of education within the context of a larger educational crisis, and with particular ...
Mapping Corporate Education Reform: Power and Policy Networks in the Neoliberal State
1st Edition
Edited
By Wayne Au, Joseph J. Ferrare
April 10, 2015
Mapping Corporate Education Reform outlines and analyzes the complex relationships between policy actors that define education reform within the current, neoliberal context. Using social network analysis and powerful data visualization tools, the authors identify the problematic roots of these ...
The Political Classroom: Evidence and Ethics in Democratic Education
1st Edition
By Diana E. Hess, Paula McAvoy
November 13, 2014
WINNER 2016 Grawemeyer Award in Education Helping students develop their ability to deliberate political questions is an essential component of democratic education, but introducing political issues into the classroom is pedagogically challenging and raises ethical dilemmas for teachers. Diana E. ...
Radical Possibilities: Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement
2nd Edition
By Jean Anyon
March 06, 2014
The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is ...
Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms: Scholars of Color Reflect
1st Edition
Edited
By George Yancy, Maria Davidson
February 18, 2014
Although multicultural education has made significant gains in recent years, with many courses specifically devoted to the topic in both undergraduate and graduate education programs, and more scholars of color teaching in these programs, these victories bring with them a number of pedagogic ...
Educating Activist Allies: Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite
1st Edition
By Katy Swalwell
March 22, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013! Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an urban ...
Critical Pedagogy and Social Change: Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility
1st Edition
By Seehwa Cho
October 03, 2012
At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than ...
Learning to Liberate: Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education
1st Edition
By Vajra Watson
November 16, 2011
Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual ...
Critical Curriculum Studies: Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing
1st Edition
By Wayne Au
July 27, 2011
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2012! Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with...
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
1st Edition
By Pauline Lipman
March 21, 2011
Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship ...