Gottesman The Critical Turn in Education

From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-67095-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten

Reihe: Critical Social Thought

The Critical Turn in Education traces the historical emergence and development of critical theories in the field of education, from the introduction of Marxist and other radical social theories in the 1960s to the contemporary critical landscape. The book begins by tracing the first waves of critical scholarship in the field through a close, contextual study of the intellectual and political projects of several core figures including, Paulo Freire, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Michael Apple, and Henry Giroux. Later chapters offer a discussion of feminist critiques, the influx of postmodernist and poststructuralist ideas in education, and critical theories of race.

While grounded in U.S. scholarship, The Critical Turn in Education contextualizes the development of critical ideas and political projects within a larger international history, and charts the ongoing theoretical debates that seek to explain the relationship between school and society. Today, much of the language of this critical turn has now become commonplace—words such as "hegemony," "ideology," and the term "critical" itself—but by providing a historical analysis, The Critical Turn in Education illuminates the complexity and nuance of these theoretical tools, which offer ways of understanding the intersections between individual identities and structural forces in an attempt to engage and overturn social injustice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gottesman, Isaac

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Series Editor’s Introduction

Introduction

Chapter One: Revolutionary Movements

Chapter Two: Political Economy and the Academic Left

Chapter Three: Ideology and Hegemony

Chapter Four: Critical Pedagogy

Chapter Five: Situated Knowledge and Feminist Standpoint Epistemology

Chapter Six: Critical Theories of Race

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Isaac Gottesman is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education at Iowa State University.