ABSTRACT
This engaging text examines issues in education and curriculum theory from multiple critical perspectives. Students are encouraged to look at education from the "inside" (the complex processes, methods and relations that operate within schools) and from the "outside" (the larger social, economic, and political forces that have affected schools over time). Each essay begins with "Guiding Questions" and concludes with "Questions for Discussion," "Teachers as Researchers" activities, and "Suggested Readings."
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Deconstruction and Nothingness
Some Cross-Cultural Lessons on Teaching Comparative World Civilization
chapter |24 pages
Antiracist Pedagogy in a College Classroom
Mutual Recognition and a Logic of Paradox
chapter |10 pages
Representation, Self-Representation, and the Meanings of Difference
Questions for Educators
chapter |16 pages
The Practice of Freedom
A Historical Analysis of Critical Perspectives in the Social Foundations
chapter |26 pages
Resisting Racial Awareness
How Teachers Understand the Social Order from Their Racial, Gender, and Social Class Locations