Utopian Pedagogy: Radical Experiments Against Neoliberal Globalization (Cultural Spaces) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802086756 ISBN 13: 9780802086754

Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 2007

Synopsis

Utopian Pedagogy is a critical exploration of educational struggles within and against neoliberalism. Editors Mark Coté, Richard J.F. Day, and Greig de Peuter, along with a number of innovative voices from a variety of different academic fields and political movements, examine three key themes: the university as a contested institution, the role of the politically engaged intellectual, and experiments in alternative education. The collection contributes to the debates on the neoliberal transformation of higher education, and to the diffusion of social movements that insist it is possible to create workable alternatives to the current world order.

This critical examination of the educational dimension of social and political struggles is presented by both professional academics and activists, many of whom are directly involved in the very experiments they discuss. Rescuing and revaluing the concept of utopia, the editors and their international contributors propose that utopian theory and practice acquire a new relevance in light of the hyper-inclusive logic of neoliberalism. Utopian Pedagogy is a challenge to the developing world order that will stimulate debate in the fields of education and beyond, and encourage the development of socially sustainable alternatives.

Contributors:
Michael Albert
Brian Alleyne
Ian Angus
Allan Antliff
Franco Berardi
MarkEdelman Boren
Guido Borio
Enda Brophy
Colectivo Situaciones
Mark Coté
Mariarosa DallaCosta
Richard J.F. Day
Greig de Peuter
Nick DyerWitheford
Henry Giroux
Stuart Hall
Kelly HarrisMartin
Imran Munir
Francesca Pozzi
Gigi Roggero
Shveta Sarda
Sarita Srivastava
Richard Toews
Carlos Alberto Torres
Sebastian Touza
Jerry Zaslove

About this title

About the Author

Mark Coté is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and a visiting scholar with the Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition at McMaster University.

Richard J.F. Day is an assitant professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University.

Greig de Peuter is a doctoral candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0802086756
• ISBN 13: 9780802086754
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Cote Mark, Day Richard J.F., De Peuter Greig