Power/knowledge/pedagogy: The Meaning Of Democratic Education In Unsettling Times

Education & Teaching

Carlson, Dennis

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Leaving Safe Harbors: Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life

<p>To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through popular culture for mythologies that might guide such a progressivism. Carlson uses Platonic, Hegelian, Nitzschean, and Heideggerian "mythologies" to elaborate a progressive model that provides powerful ways of "thinking" democratic education and public life.</p>

To rise to the challenges of postmodern culture, Carlson argues, progressives will need to leave the safe harbors of what is familiar and comfortable. A new progressivism can only be forged of a fundamental re-thinking and re-mythologizing of democratic education. Drawing upon cultural studies perspectives, Carlson interrogates philosophy through popular culture for mythologies that might guide such a progressivism. Carlson uses Platonic, Hegelian, Nitzschean, and Heideggerian "mythologies" to elaborate a progressive model that provides powerful ways of "thinking" democratic education and public life.

Leaving Safe Harbors

To forge a new progressivism in a changing culture, Americans will need to leave the 'safe harbors' of conventional thought. Carlson provides a radical new vision for the future of education and public life.

Making Progress: Education and Culture in New Times

Challenging the conservative political agenda for school reform, Dennis Carlson offers ideas for rethinking democratic progressive ideas in education given the new cultural conditions of a postmodern society. He explores what democratic education must be to meet the demands of learning to work in an ""information age"" and argues for the importance of sexuality education, detracking and multicultural education. The book attempts to reappropriate democratic progressive approaches to education consistent with dramatically new times that call for new ways of thinking about equity, freedom and community. Above all it demonstrates how public participation in educational debates contributes to a healthy and robust public school system for all students.

Teachers College Pr

Challenging the conservative political agenda for school reform, Dennis Carlson offers ideas for rethinking democratic progressive ideas in education given the new cultural conditions of a postmodern society. He explores what democratic education must be to meet the demands of learning to work in an "information age" and argues for the importance of sexuality education, detracking and multicultural education. The book attempts to reappropriate democratic progressive approaches to education consistent with dramatically new times that call for new ways of thinking about equity, freedom and community. Above all it demonstrates how public participation in educational debates contributes to a healthy and robust public school system for all students.

The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These shifts include the fragmentation of established power blocs, the emergence of a politics of identity, growing inequalities between the haves and the have-nots in a new global economy, and the rise in influence of popular culture in defining who we are. In the academy, postmodernism has been associated with the emergence of new theoretical perspectives that are unsettling the way we think about education. These shifts, the authors suggest, are deeply contradictory and may lead in divergent political directions—some of them quite dangerous. Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy examines these issues with regard to four broad domains of educational inquiry: state educational policy and curriculum reform, student identity formation, the curriculum as a text, and critical pedagogy. The book contributes to the dialogue on the forging of a new commonsense discourse on democratic educational renewal, attuned to the changing times in which we live.

Power/knowledge/pedagogy: The Meaning Of Democratic Education In Unsettling Times (Edge - Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

Apple, Michael W.

Westview Press

SCALPEL, SPIRIT AND SEEDS: MY LIFE PROMOTING HEALTH IN ETHIOPIA AND AROUND THE WORLD

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Gatekeeper Press

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Power/knowledge/pedagogy: The Meaning Of Democratic Education In Unsettling Times

Leaving Safe Harbors: Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life

Leaving Safe Harbors

Leaving Safe Harbors: Toward a New Progressivism in American Education and Public Life

Making Progress: Education and Culture in New Times

Making Progress: Education and Culture in New Times

Power/knowledge/pedagogy: The Meaning Of Democratic Education In Unsettling Times (Edge - Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

SCALPEL, SPIRIT AND SEEDS: MY LIFE PROMOTING HEALTH IN ETHIOPIA AND AROUND THE WORLD