ABSTRACT

This book introduces educational practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts, questions, and concerns that make up the field of critical social theory. It guides readers into a lively conversation about how education can and does contribute to reinforcing or challenging relations of domination in the modern era. Written by a group of experienced educators and scholars, in an engaging style, Critical Social Theories and Education introduces and explains the preeminent thinkers and traditions in critical social theory, and discusses the primary strands of educational research and thought that have been informed and influenced by them.

chapter |24 pages

Introduction

Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education

chapter |26 pages

Forerunners and Foundation Builders

Origins of a Western Critical Social Theory Tradition

chapter |29 pages

Education and Hegemony

The Influence of Antonio Gramsci

chapter |33 pages

The Double-Edge of Reason

Jürgen Habermas and the Frankfurt School

chapter |26 pages

Symbolic Domination and the Reproduction of Inequality

Pierre Bourdieu and Practice Theory

chapter |32 pages

Knowledge, Power, and Care of the Self

The Many Faces of Michel Foucault in Education Research

chapter |25 pages

Feminisms

Embodying the Critical

chapter |24 pages

Critical Race Theory and Education

Mapping a Legacy of Activism and Scholarship

chapter |32 pages

Friendly Critiques and Fellow Travelers

Questioning and Expanding the Critical Social Theory Canon