Critical Theories in Education : Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Politics

Name: Critical Theories in Education:Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Politics
ISBN: 9780429238680

doi:10.4324/9780203826256

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ABSTRACT

This book examines critical theories in education research from various points of view in order to critique the relations of power and knowledge in education and schooling practices. It addresses social injustices in the field of education, while at the same time questioning traditional standards of critical theory. Drawing on recent social and lit

Critical Theories in Education

ABSTRACT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction Critical Traditions, Modernisms, and the "Posts"

part |2 pages

Part One The Changing Terrains of Knowledge and Power

chapter |26 pages

A Social Epistemology of Educational Research

part |2 pages

Part Two The Changing Terrains of Pedagogy

chapter |22 pages

Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits

chapter |18 pages

Emergent Identity Versus Consistent Identity: Possibilities for a Postmodern Repoliticization of Critical Pedagogy

part |2 pages

Part Three The Changing Terrains of Power: Marx, Bourdieu, and Foucault

chapter |30 pages

Critical Theory and Political Sociology of Education: Arguments

chapter |28 pages

Philosophy of Education, Frankfurt Critical Theory, and the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

chapter |24 pages

The Mode of Information and Education: Insights on Critical Theory from Michel Foucault

chapter |20 pages

Making Trouble: Prediction, Agency, and Critical Intellectuals

part |2 pages

Part Four The Changing Terrains of Literary Theory, Pragmatism, and the Liberal Arts

chapter |18 pages

(Dis)locating Thoughts: Where Do the Birds Go after the Last Sky?

chapter |20 pages

Reconstructing Dewey's Critical Philosophy: Toward a Literary Pragmatist Criticism

chapter |20 pages

Critical Education and the Liberal Arts

chapter |2 pages

Contributors