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" Features of this innovative text: "Introduces the primary people,
concepts, and issues in the field of critical social theory,
including Marx and Weber, Gramsci, the Frankfurt school and
Habermas, Bourdieu, Foucault, feminism, and critical race
theory.Accessibly written for students by a group of experienced
educators and scholars who explain concepts using examples.Defines
and broadly expands the critical social theory tradition.What is
social theory, and what is critical about critical social theories?
How can critical social theories enrich and illuminate our
understanding of educational processes and thereby contribute to
progressive social transformation? This book introduces educational
practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts,
questions, and concerns that make up the field of critical social
theory. It guides readers into a lively conversation about how
education can and does contribute to reinforcing or challenging
relations of domination in the modern era. Written by a group of
experienced educators and scholars, in an engaging style, Critical
Social Theories and Education introduces and explains the
preeminent thinkers and traditions in critical social theory, and
discusses the primary strands of educational research and thought
that have been informed and influenced by them.An engaging
introduction defines and situates critical social theory in
relation to other kinds of social science and educational theories.
A chapter on foundations and forerunners discusses the origins of a
critical social theory tradition in the work of Karl Marx, Max
Weber, G.H. Mead, and others. Full chapters explicate the life
trajectories and key concepts of Antonio Gramsci, members of the
Frankfurt School and Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel
Foucault and post-structuralism, feminism, and critical race
theory. These chapters also feature a section that traces and maps
out some of the education scholarship employing these critical
social theories with accompanying bibliographies as well as a
section that more closely examines a few key examples of such
scholarship, identifying the ways that critical social theory
concepts get taken up in research. Finally, not content to limit
the discussion to conventionally acknowledged critical theories, a
final chapter, called Friendly critiques and fellow travelers,
introduces and discusses a number of related theories, assessing
their potential to contribute to education for social
transformation. Among the theories discussed here are liberalism,
pragmatism, world-systems, critical globalization and postcolonial
theories, Latin American critical thought (liberation theology,
dependency theory, Fals Borda and Freire, participatory democracy),
deep ecology and spirituality, and practice-centered critiques of
power (Flyvbjerg, Holland, Erickson).
" Features of this innovative text: "Introduces the primary people,
concepts, and issues in the field of critical social theory,
including Marx and Weber, Gramsci, the Frankfurt school and
Habermas, Bourdieu, Foucault, feminism, and critical race
theory.Accessibly written for students by a group of experienced
educators and scholars who explain concepts using examples.Defines
and broadly expands the critical social theory tradition.What is
social theory, and what is critical about critical social theories?
How can critical social theories enrich and illuminate our
understanding of educational processes and thereby contribute to
progressive social transformation? This book introduces educational
practitioners, students, and scholars to the people, concepts,
questions, and concerns that make up the field of critical social
theory. It guides readers into a lively conversation about how
education can and does contribute to reinforcing or challenging
relations of domination in the modern era. Written by a group of
experienced educators and scholars, in an engaging style, Critical
Social Theories and Education introduces and explains the
preeminent thinkers and traditions in critical social theory, and
discusses the primary strands of educational research and thought
that have been informed and influenced by them.An engaging
introduction defines and situates critical social theory in
relation to other kinds of social science and educational theories.
A chapter on foundations and forerunners discusses the origins of a
critical social theory tradition in the work of Karl Marx, Max
Weber, G.H. Mead, and others. Full chapters explicate the life
trajectories and key concepts of Antonio Gramsci, members of the
Frankfurt School and Jurgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel
Foucault and post-structuralism, feminism, and critical race
theory. These chapters also feature a section that traces and maps
out some of the education scholarship employing these critical
social theories with accompanying bibliographies as well as a
section that more closely examines a few key examples of such
scholarship, identifying the ways that critical social theory
concepts get taken up in research. Finally, not content to limit
the discussion to conventionally acknowledged critical theories, a
final chapter, called Friendly critiques and fellow travelers,
introduces and discusses a number of related theories, assessing
their potential to contribute to education for social
transformation. Among the theories discussed here are liberalism,
pragmatism, world-systems, critical globalization and postcolonial
theories, Latin American critical thought (liberation theology,
dependency theory, Fals Borda and Freire, participatory democracy),
deep ecology and spirituality, and practice-centered critiques of
power (Flyvbjerg, Holland, Erickson).
Eleven historical-ethnographic case studies examine the social and
cultural projects of modern schools, and the contestations,
dramatic and not, that emerge in and around and against them. These
case studies, ranging from Taiwan to South Texas, build upon an
original joining of anthropology, critical education theory, and
cultural studies. The studies advance the concept of cultural
production as a way of understanding the dynamics of power and
identity formation underlying different forms of "education". Using
the concept of the "educated person" as a culture-specific
construct, the authors examine conflicts and points of convergence
between cultural practices and knowledges that are produced in and
out of schools.
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