Peter Pericles Trifonas (ed.): Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics, Education, and Discourse of Theory (2000)

Revolutionary Pedagogies, an innovative edited collection of essays from the cream of the cultural and policy studies crop, examines the theory/practice debate as it has been articulated pedagogically. These essays respond to the need to renegotiate the premise for an ethico-political intervention into the scene of teaching and learning. The contributors–major theorists and distinguished thinkers–seek to answer the question of whether a revolutionary pedagogy is possible as a means of transforming the cultural history of educational practice. They examine this question across disciplines in the areas of deconstruction, postcolonial and cultural studies, feminism, critical pedagogy, psychoanalysis, and educational and curricular theory.

Publisher Routledge, 2000
ISBN 041592569X, 9780415925693
362 pages

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Fifty Major Thinkers on Education. From Confucius to Dewey (2001)

Why and how people should be educated has, throughout history, preoccupied some of civilization’s greatest minds. This unique work summarizes and analyzes the thinking on education of fifty individuals drawn from a time span covering 500 BC to the nineteenth century. Among those included are:

Confucius Plato St. Augustine Eamus John Wesley Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecaft Nietzche John Dewey Rudolf Steiner

Together with Fifty Contemporary Thinkers on Education, this book provides an intellectual history of educational thinking, through the ages. Each essay gives biographical information, an outline of the individual’s principal achievements and activities, an assessment of his or her impact and influence, a list of their major writings and suggested further reading.

Editors Joy Palmer, Liora Bresler, David Edward Cooper
Publisher Routledge, 2001
ISBN 0415231256, 9780415231251
Length 254 pages

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eurhythmics, Al-Ghazzali, Ibn Tufayl, African American, Confucius, Aristotle, Plato, Fichte, Hegel, Louisa May Alcott, John Dewey, Little Women, Bertrand Russell, Socrates, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Alfred North Whitehead, Alfred Binet, Rabindranath Tagore, Dalcroze, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Melissa Checker, Maggie Fishman (eds.): Local Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America (2004)

Activism is alive and well in the United States, according to Melissa Checker and Maggie Fishman. It exists on large and small scales and thrives in unexpected places. Finding activism in backyards, art classes, and urban areas branded as “ghettos,” these anthropologists explore the many routes people take to work toward social change.Ten absorbing studies present activist groups across the country — from transgender activists in New York City, to South Asian teenagers in Silicon Valley, to evangelical Christians and Palestinian Americans. Each one examines a social change effort as it unfolds on the ground. Through their anthropological approach these portraits of American society suggest the inherent possibilities in identity-based organizing and offer crucial in-depth perspectives on such hotly debated topics as multiculturalism and the culture wars, the environment, racism, public education, Native American rights, and the Christian right. Moving far beyond the walls of academia, the contributors address the complex issues that arise when researchers have stakes in the subjects they study. Scholars can play multiple roles in the activist struggles they recount, and these essays illustrate how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism.

Publisher Columbia University Press, 2004
ISBN 0231128517, 9780231128513
Length 254 pages

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