This contributed-to text provides a balance between theory and application to examine the contested political and pedagogical issues surrounding multiculturalism and bilingual education in the United States. The engaging voices and styles are woven together to create a unified, student-accessible text which provides a realistic account of the issues of multicultural and bilingual education facing teachers today. The first part of the book establishes a conceptual framework for the book. The second part sets the context for reflection and action for students and teachers in the cross fire. The contributing writers examine topics in light of the current and forthcoming demographic shifts in the United States during the next century, suggesting a country increasingly divided along class lines, browner, urban, and multilingual; with a teaching force comprised mostly of white, middle-class females. Authored by some of the leading and more engaging voices in the field of multilingual and bilingual education, the book is designed to help students and teachers develop informed mind sets related to the highly contested political and pedagogical issues surrounding pluralistic schooling in our society.

The Politics of Multiculturalism and Bilingual Education: Students and Teachers Caught in the Cross Fire

Education & Teaching

Ovando, Carlos J.

McLaren, Peter

Schools & Teaching

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This text demonstrates a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education, Fourth Edition, features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. This text provokes analytic discussion of social problems and a theoretical framework for formulating potential solutions (Parts III &amp; IV). It also includes a new essay on race, a chapter on the social construction of whiteness, and new statistics relative to American public schooling.

Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education (4th Edition)

Allyn&Bacon

This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. The text provokes analytic discussion of social problems and a theoretical framework for formulating potential solutions (Parts III &amp; IV). It also includes a new discussion of race and class, a chapter on the social construction of whiteness, and a new chapter that challenges current domestic and foreign policies of the current White House administration (including the No Child Left Behind Act) and their impact upon American public schooling.

Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education

PRENTICE/HALL

Revolutionary Multiculturalism: Pedagogies Of Dissent For The New Millennium

Routledge

This book is a principled, accessible and highly stimulating discussion of a politics of resistance for today. Ranging widely over issues of identity, representation, culture and schooling, it will be required reading for students of radical pedagogy, sociology and political science.

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture: Oppositional Politics in a Postmodern Era

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Originally published in 1986, this book offers the educational community an original and unusual approach to the analysis of contemporary schooling. This revised edition has been published in response to demands from sociologists and educationalists. It contains a new postscript which extends and deepens McLaren's original analysis.

Schooling as a Ritual Performance: Towards a Political Economy of Educational Symbols and Gestures

Sociology

Paulo Freire is one of the century's great thinkers on education and the politics of liberation. Known mostly for his literacy campaigns in Latin America and Africa, and for his seminal work Pedagogy of the Oppressed, his thinking continues to be rediscovered by generations of teachers, scholars, community activists and cultural workers in Europe and North America. While his name is synonymous with the practice of Critical Literacy' and A Pedagogy of Liberation', his work has been appropiated in many diverse fields of discipline and site-based projects of social reform. This volume represents a pathfinding analysis of Freires work and in many cases it offers an extension of his thinking in order to make it more applicable to first world contexts. Peter McLaren and Peter Leonard have brought together a divergent group of scholars widely recognized for their contributions to critical theory and critical pedagogy. Themes addressed include Freier's relation to feminist critique, his philosophical roots and an evaluation of his ideas from postmodernist and postcolonialist perspectives. The collection will be essential reading for anyone interested in the radical sociology of education and the politics of liberation.

Paulo Freire: A Critical Encounter (Political Science/Sociology)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leonard, Peter

Arts & Literature

The Politics of Liberation: Paths from Freire

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Lankshear, Colin

Philosophy

Cultural Studies explores popular culture in a uniquely exciting and innovative way. Encouraging experimentation, intervention and dialogue, Cultural Studies is both politically and theoretically rewarding.

Cultural Studies: Volume 7, Issue 1 (Cultural Studies Journal)

Grioux, Henry A.

Arts & Photography

Critical Pedagogy and Predatory Culture

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