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This book is organized around three themes: mechanisms of domination and control; pedagogies of possibility; and theory as critique. It links education with an analysis of politics and economics, and takes as central the possibilities of schools as places where social critique and the empowerment of students can take place. The authors have considered the possibilities of student resistance and curriculum transformation, and have deepened their critiques to incorporate recent theoretical analyses influenced by feminist critiques, anti-racist approaches, and postmodernist thought.
In moving from theoretical analysis to "practical" examples of curriculum transformation and classroom practice, What Schools Can Do provides both a foundation for the analysis of schooling and alternatives for teaching practice.
"The articles in this splendid collection are representative of some of the best work currently undertaken in the critical educational field. I highly recommend this book to all teachers, researchers, administrators and cultural workers interested in transforming current teaching practices and exercising leadership in both school and social reform." — Peter L. McLaren, Miami University of Ohio
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Kathleen Weiler
I. Theorizing Power/Knowledge
The Hope of Radical Education
Henry A. Giroux
Schools and Families: A Feminist Perspective
Madeleine Arnot
Sex, Pregnancy, and Schooling: Obstacles to a Critical Teaching of the Body
Laurie McDade
Presence of Mind in the Absence of Body
Linda Brodkey and Michelle Fine
Knowledge, Power, and Discourse in Social Studies Education
Cleo Cherryholmes
Multicultural Education: Minority Identities, Textbooks, and the Challenge of Curricular Reform
Cameron McCarthy
Culture, Pedagogy, and Power: Issues in the Production of Values and Colonialization
Thomas S. Popkewitz
II. Pedagogies of Possibility
Decentering Discourses in Teacher Education: Or, the Unleashing of Unpopular Things
Deborah P. Britzman
The Politics of Race: Through the Eyes of African-American Teachers
Michele Foster
The Art of Being Present: Educating for Aesthetic Encounters
Maxine Greene
Schooling, Popular Culture, and a Pedagogy of Possibility
Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon
Critical Mathematics Education: An Application of Paulo Freire's Epistemology
Marilyn Frankenstein
Writing Pedagogy: A Dialogue of Hope
Anne-Louis Brookes and Ursula A. Kelly
Contributors
Index