Description
Book SynopsisThe decolonization of education necessarily involves a critique of dominant ideologies, pedagogies, and the current organization of education, to be replaced by what, in 1970, Paulo Freire called the pedagogy of the oppressed. Critical Theory and Pedagogy presents a theory for decolonizing, democratizing, and reconstructing education in order to meet the challenges of a global and technological society. A democratic and intersectional reconstruction of education must build on and synthesize perspectives of classical philosophy of education, Deweyean radical pragmatism, Freirean critical pedagogy, poststructuralism, and critical theories of gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity, disability, indigeneity, and more, while criticizing obsolete idealist, elitist, and antidemocratic aspects of traditional concepts of education.
Articulating a metatheory for the philosophy of education, while providing a historical genealogy and grounding of key themes, Critical T
Table of Contents
Steve Gennaro and Jeff Share: Foreword – Toward a Critical Theory of Education – Marxian Perspectives on Educational Philosophy: From Classical Marxism to Critical Pedagogy – Exploring the Roots of Digital and Media Literacy through Personal Narrative – Critical Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and Radical Democracy: Reflections on the Work of Henry Giroux – Rhonda Hammer and Douglas Kellner: Multimedia Pedagogy and Multicultural Education for the New Millennium – Reading Images Critically: Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy – New Technologies/New Literacies: Reconstructing Education for Democracy and Social Justice – Steve Gennaro and Doug Kellner: Digital Culture, Media, and the Challenges of Contemporary Cyborg Youth.
