Just Schooling: Explorations in the Cultural Politics of Teaching - Hardcover

Gale, Trevor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 033520323X ISBN 13: 9780335203239

Publisher: Open University Pres, 2000

Synopsis

Just Schooling is an exercise in the cultural politics of teaching. It invites teachers and interested others to rethink what they know about social justice and to rework how they engage in the practices of teaching (what they say and do), particularly in relation to how these influence the lives of students. Informed by a recognitive view of social justice, Just Schooling analyses the various discourses and ideologies mobilized in classrooms that implicitly and explicitly determine what is understood by (i) the nature and centrality of language, (ii) the purposes and meaning of education, and (iii) the diversity of students, particularly with respect to their gender, race and social class but also their learning disabilities. Throughout, the authors argue for a democratization of classroom relations, beginning with students' and teachers' personal lives and connecting these with wider contexts, as a way of addressing the advantages and disadvantages traditionally reproduced by schooling.

About this title

About the Author:

Trevor Gale is Senior Lecturer in Education at Central Queensland University. His research is characterised by a disposition for critical and poststructural educational studies and focuses on issues of social justice, policy sociology and research methodology. His publications have explored areas of higher education and the sociology of education more generally. Kathleen Densmore is Associate Professor at San Jose State University in California. Her teaching, research and publications focus on the relationship between social and educational change. She has worked in the area of pedagogy in both Nicaragua and Cuba.

About this edition

• Publisher: Open University Pres
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 033520323X
• ISBN 13: 9780335203239
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192