Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: A New Generation of Scholars (Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society)

Malott, Curry Stephenson/ Porfilio, Bradley

ISBN 10: 1617353302 / ISBN 13: 9781617353307

Published by Textstream, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: A New Generation of Scholars (Critical Constructions: Studies on Education and Society)
• Publisher: Textstream
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1617353302
• ISBN 13: 9781617353307
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This book simultaneously provides multiple analyses of critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century while showcasing the scholarship of this new generation of critical scholar-educators. Needless to say, the writers herein represent just a small subset of a much larger movement for critical transformation and a more humane, less Eurocentric, less paternalistic, less homophobic, less patriarchical, less exploitative, and less violent world. This volume highlights the finding that rigorous critical pedagogical approaches to education, while still marginalized in many contexts, are being used in increasingly more classrooms for the benefit of student learning, contributing, however indirectly, to the larger struggle against the barbarism of industrial, neoliberal, militarized destructiveness. The challenge for critical pedagogy in the twenty-first century, from this point of view, includes contributing to the manifestation of a truly global critical pedagogy that is epistemologically democratic and against human suffering and capitalist exploitation. These rigorous, democratic, critical standards for measuring the value of our scholarship, including this volume of essays, should be the same that we use to critique and transform the larger society in which we live and work.

About the Author

Curry Malott is an Associate Professor of educational foundations in the College of Education at West Chester University of PA and a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.