Critical Social Thought

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1. Critical Pedagogy and Social Change

   Critical Analysis on the Language of Possibility

   By Seehwa Cho

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   At its core, the main goal of critical pedagogy is deceptively simple—to construct schools and education as agents of change. While noble and ambitious, it is not always realistic in a climate of increased commodification, privatization of schooling, and canned curriculum. By assuming rather than...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Act Your Age!

   A Cultural Construction of Adolescence, 2nd Edition

   By Nancy Lesko

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Are our current ways of talking about "the problem of adolescence" really that different than those of past generations? For the past decade, Act Your Age! has provided a provocative and now classic analysis of the accepted ways of viewing teens. By employing a groundbreaking "history of the...

   Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
3. Learning to Liberate

   Community-Based Solutions to the Crisis in Urban Education

   By Vajra Watson

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Few problems in education are as pressing as the severe crisis in urban schools. Though educators have tried a wide range of remedies, dismal results persist. This is especially true for low-income youth of color, who drop out of school—and into incarceration—at extremely high rates. The dual...

   Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. Critical Curriculum Studies

   Education, Consciousness, and the Politics of Knowing

   By Wayne Au

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Critical Curriculum Studies offers a novel framework for thinking about how curriculum relates to students’ understanding of the world around them. Wayne Au brings together curriculum theory, critical educational studies, and feminist standpoint theory with practical examples of teaching for social...

   Published July 26th 2011 by Routledge
5. The New Political Economy of Urban Education

   Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

   By Pauline Lipman

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
6. Controversy in the Classroom

   The Democratic Power of Discussion

   By Diana E. Hess

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   In a conservative educational climate that is dominated by policies like No Child Left Behind, one of the most serious effects has been for educators to worry about the politics of what they are teaching and how they are teaching it. As a result, many dedicated teachers choose to avoid...

   Published March 22nd 2009 by Routledge
7. Race, Whiteness, and Education

   By Zeus Leonardo

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   In the colorblind era of Post-Civil Rights America, race is often wrongly thought to be irrelevant or, at best, a problem of racist individuals rather than a systemic condition to be confronted. Race, Whiteness, and Education interrupts this dangerous assumption by reaffirming a critical...

   Published March 22nd 2009 by Routledge
8. Advocacy Leadership

   Toward a Post-Reform Agenda in Education

   By Gary L. Anderson

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   In this timely and important new book, Gary Anderson provides a devastating critique of why a managerial role for educational leaders is counterproductive, especially for improving opportunities for low-income students and students of color, and instead proposes ways of re-theorizing...

   Published March 5th 2009 by Routledge
9. Critical Perspectives on bell hooks

   Edited by Maria del Guadalupe Davidson, George Yancy

   Series: Critical Social Thought

   Although bell hooks has long challenged the dominant paradigms of race, class, and gender, there has never been a comprehensive book critically reflecting upon this seminal scholar’s body of work. Her written works aim to transgress and disrupt those codes that exclude others as intellectually...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
10. Hidden Markets

    The New Education Privatization

    By Patricia Burch

    Series: Critical Social Thought

    Across the U.S., test publishers, software companies, and research firms are swarming to take advantage of the revenues made available by the No Child Left Behind Act. In effect, the education industry has assumed a central place in the day-to-day governance and administration of public schools—a...

    Published January 11th 2009 by Routledge