Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Education, and Discourse of Theory

by Peter Trifonas (Editor)

Overview

Revolutionary Pedagogies , an innovative edited collection of essays from the cream of the cultural and policy studies crop, examines the theory/practice debate as it has been articulated pedagogically. These essays respond to the need to renegotiate the premise for an ethico-political intervention into the scene of teaching and learning. The contributors--major theorists and distinguished thinkers--seek to answer the question of whether a revolutionary pedagogy is possible as a means of transforming the cultural history of educational practice. They examine this question across disciplines in the areas of deconstruction, postcolonial and cultural studies, feminism, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and educational and curricular theory.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135959364
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	962 KB

About the Author

Peter Trifonas

Table of Contents

I. Cultural Politics Diasporas Old and New: Women in the Transnational World - Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Strange Fruit: Race, Sex, and an Autobiographics of Alterity - William F. Pinar All-Consuming Identities: Race and the Pedagogy of Resentment in the Age of Difference - Cameron McCarthy and Greg Dimitriadis The Touch of the Past: The Pedagogical Significance of a Transactional Sphere of Public Memory - Roger I. Simon II. Instituting Education Where a Teaching Body Begins and How it Ends - Jacques Derrida Technologies of Reason: Toward a Regrounding of Academic Responsibility - Peter Pericles Trifonas Unthinking Whiteness: Rearticulating Diasporic Practice - Peter McLaren Postmodern Education and Disposable Youth - Henry A. Girouz Multiple Literacies and Critical Pedagogies: New Paradigms - Douglas Kellner III. The Discourse of Theory The Shock of the Real: Critical Pedagogies and Rightist Reconstructions - Michael W. Apple The Limits of Dialogue as a Critical Pedagogy - Nicholas C. Burbules The Social Sciences as Information Technology: A Political Economy of Practice - John Willinsky Responsible Practices of Academic Writing: Troubling Clarity II - Patti Lather Degrees of Freedom and Deliberations of Self:The Gendering of Identity in Teaching - Jo-Anne Dillabough

Editorial Reviews

Can a revolutionary pedagogy transform the cultural history of educational practice? These essays by theorists and educators argue that no pedagogy is able to portray all educational realities, especially when the political, cultural, and economic changes of our time are taken into account. The essays challenge the reader to reexamine the boundaries of "thought and action" and "theory and practice" by avoiding a defensive posture and by being open to an interdisciplinary logic. Again and again, the reader is confronted by the same question: How does rethinking the ethics and politics of dominant modes of knowledge and their pedagogical forms affect what it means to teach, to learn, and to know? The contributors invite meticulous reading, reaching out to scholars and providing ample bibliographies at the end of each essay. Academic libraries will find this anthology worthy of consideration; educators seeking to probe critical theory will also find it valuable.--Leroy Hommerding, Fort Myers Beach Lib., FL Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

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