Life in schools: an introduction to critical pedagogy in the foundations of education

Abstract

I. REFLECTIONS ON LIFE IN SCHOOLS: FORGING A NEW BEGINNING IN AN AGE OF POLITICAL DECEIT AND IMPERIAL GRANDEUR. Introduction. Retreat of Democracy. Corporate Assault on Education. Bringing Theory into the Streets. II. CRIES FROM THE CORRIDOR: TEACHING IN THE SUBURBAN GHETTO. Introduction. Corridor Kids. 1. Frontiers of Despair. Epilogue. 2. Invisible Epidemic. Epilogue. 3. The Suburbs Was Supposed to Be a Nice Place... Summer Vacation. Afterword. III. CRITICAL PEDAGOGY: AN OVERVIEW. Critical Pedagogy and the Egalitarian Dream. 4. Emergence of Critical Pedagogy. Foundational Principles. 5. Critical Pedagogy: A Look at the Major Concepts. Importance of Theory. Critical Pedagogy and the Social Construction of Knowledge. Critical Pedagogy and the Power/Knowledge Relation. Critical Pedagogy and the Curriculum. Social Reproduction: A Critical Perspective. Questions for Discussion. IV. ANALYSIS. 6. Race, Class, and Gender: Why Students Fail. Black Underclass: Racial Stratifi cation and the Politics of Culture. Resistance and the Reproduction of Class Relations. Bein' Tough: Bein' Female. Psychologizing Student Failure. 7. New and Old Myths in Education. Technologizing Learning. Neoconservatism and the Myth of Democratic Schooling. 8. Teachers and Students. Primacy of Student Experience. Primacy of Voice. Beyond Conversations with the Other. 9. Conclusion to Parts Three and Four. Teacher as Social and Moral Agent. V. LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD.