1st Edition

Class in Education Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

Edited By Deborah Kelsh, Dave Hill, Sheila Macrine Copyright 2010
224 Pages
by Routledge

242 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural carnival of lifestyles, consumptions, tastes, prestige and desire, or obscures social conflicts through... Read more

Foreword E. San Juan, Jr. Introduction Sheila Macrine, Dave Hill and Deborah Kelsh  1. Cultureclass  Deborah Kelsh  2. Hypohumanities  Teresa L. Ebert and Mas’ud Zavarzadeh  3. Persistent Inequities, Obfuscating Explanations: Reinforcing the Lost Centrality of Class in Indian Educational Debates  Ravi Kumar  4. Class, "Race" and State in Post-Apartheid Education  Enver Motala and Salim Vally  5. Racism and Islamophobia in post 7/7 Britain: Critical Race Theory, (Xeno-) Racialization, Empire and Education: A Marxist Analysis  Mike Cole and Alpesh Maisuria  6. Marxism, Critical Realism and Class: Implications for a Socialist Pedagogy Grant Banfield   7. Globalization, Class, and the Social Studies Curriculum  E. Wayne Ross and Greg Queen  8. Class: The Base of All Reading  Robert Faivre  Afterword  Peter McLaren

Biography

Deborah Kelsh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, US.

Dave Hill is Professor of Education Policy at the University of Northampton, UK.

Sheila Macrine is an Associate Professor in the Curriculum and Teaching Department at Montclair State University in New Jersey, US.