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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to focus specifically on the highly original contribution to the field of Critical Pedagogy made by the sometimes «irritable» French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The book represents a significant addition to the growing body of work on Rancière as well as to the field of Critical Pedagogy. While introducing and contextualising Rancière for those unfamiliar with him, the book also develops an understanding of the singularity of his conception of pedagogy for those already acquainted with his work. Central to the book is Rancière’s vision of education as a «practice of equality» – a method grounded in an assumption of intellectual equality between students and teachers. Throughout the chapters of the book, the contemporary relevance of this vision is drawn out for educators in schools and universities, adult and popular educators, as well as for political activists. For anyone and everyone with an interest in teaching and learning, this book contains vital insights for the survival and development of education as a democratic, critical and emancipatory project.
Trade Review«This book will be hugely helpful for anyone thinking about what equality and emancipation mean in the context of education, and how Jacques Rancière’s polemical interventions can be made sense of in relation to more familiar thinkers in the field, such as Foucault and Freire. It is a vital resource for developing ideas about what critical pedagogy means today.» (Dr Caroline Pelletier, Reader in Culture and Communication at UCL’s Institute of Education)
«Around the world, educators, students, and community activists are filling the streets in resistance to the marketization of education and other neoliberal policies and practices that have functioned for more than 30 years to exacerbate inequalities across societies. Never has there been a better time to read Cowden and Ridley’s The Practice of Equality, where they beautifully compile a set of insightful essays that brilliantly reinvigorate the revolutionary ideas of French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The volume skillfully ushers in a much needed new wave of critical pedagogical disruption for our times.» (Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg)
Table of ContentsCONTENTS: Sarah Galloway: Rancière, Freire and Critical Pedagogy – Oliver Davis: «Glearning» from Rancière – Jeremy F. Lane: Neither «Sociologist» Nor «Republican»: The «Singularity» of Rancière’s Intervention in French Education Debates – David Ridley: Flipping for Profit or Equality? Rancière and the Marketisation of Higher Education – Jones Irwin: Alternative Genealogies of Resistance – Lyotard, Rancière and ’68: Before and After – Mark Howard: The Positive Project of the Radical Political Subject: Self-activity and Verification of Intellectual Equality – Mike Neary: Reading Rancière Symptomatically.
