Critical Theories in Education: Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Politics

by Thomas Popkewitz (Editor), Lynn Fendler (Editor)

Overview

This book examines critical theories in education research from various points of view in order to critique the relations of power and knowledge in education and schooling practices. It addresses social injustices in the field of education, while at the same time questioning traditional standards of critical theory. Drawing on recent social and lit

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136792823
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/16/1999
Series:	Social Theory, Education, and Cultural Change
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is co-editor of Foucault'sChallenge: Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education (1998) and author of Struggling for the Soul: ThePolitics of Education and the Construction of the Teacher (1998) and A Political Sociology of Education Reform:Power/Knowledge and Power in Teaching, Teacher Education,and Research (1991). Lynn Fendler is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Series Editors' Introduction Preface Introduction Thomas S. Popkewitz -- Critical Traditions, Modernisms, and the Posts Part One: The Changing Terrain of Knowledge and Power Thomas S. Popkewitz -- A Social Epistemiology of Educational Research Part Two: The Changing Terrains of Pedagogy Nicholas C. Burbules and Rupert Berk -- Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits Siebren miedema and Willem L. Wardekker -- Emergent Identity Versus Consistent Identity: Possibilities for a Postmodern Repoliticization of Critical Pedagogy Part Three: The Changing Terrains of Power: Marx, Bourdieu, and Foucault Carlos Albert Torres -- Critical Theory and Political Sociology of Education: Arguments Staf Callewaert -- Philosophy of Education, Frankfurt critical Theory, and the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu James D. Marshall -- The Mode of Information and Education: Insights on Critical Theory from Michael Foucault Lynn Fendler -- Making Trouble: Prediction, Agency, and Critical Intellectuals Part Four: The Changing Terrains of Literary Theory, Pragmatism, and the Liberal Arts Pradeep A. Dhillon -- (Dis)Locating Thoughts: Where Do the Birds Go After the Last Sky? Lynda Stone -- Reconstructing Dewey's Critical Philosophy: Toward a Literary Pragmatist Criticism JoAnne Pagano -- Critical Education and the Liberal Arts Contributors About the Editors Index

Editorial Reviews

"This collection of well-organized, well-written, and thoughtful essays edited by Popkewitz $ Fendler is an important contribution to educational thought and practice at the right time. This book responds to education's desperate need to push the boundaries of how to better understand the practice of schooling by moving beyond traditional explanations of power/knowledge relationships." -- Jaime Grinberg, University of New Mexico, Qualitative Studies in Education, 2001, Vo. 14

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