Authors: Jerome Satterthwaite
ISBN-13: 9781858563572, ISBN-10: 1858563577
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC
Date Published: May 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Jerome Satterthwaite teaches in the Faculty of Education at the University of Plymouth. He is the organizer of the annual Plymouth conferences on Discourse, Power, Resistance.
This fourth volume in the Discourse, Power, Resistance series takes the theme into new territory, setting educational thinking and practice firmly in its global political context. Drawing on schools of thought as diverse as Marxism and eco-feminist theology, the contributors to Part 1 (Global Imperialism and Terror: The Theory and Practice of Othering), led by Peter McLaren, examine the possibilities for critical thinking and transformative practice in the aftermath of 9/11 and the new age of cultural and political imperialism.
In Part 2 (Praxis: Thinking and Doing) contributors draw on a range of critical perspectives to examine both the theory and practice of education, taking the reader from the self to the system and back again via dynamic systems theory, flow theory and a multiplicity of diverse (and often conflicting) practices of subversion. The book closes with two radical departures from the norm: a seriously playful transgression into the fields of pop art and film, and a searing poetic lament on the current state of educational policy and practice.
As educators, we are all, in William Pinar’s words, ‘behind enemy lines’, in a field which, despite our continued bids for autonomy, is increasingly hijacked by globalizing political forces. This book offers modes of resistance which are startling, unsettling and challenging. It will be of deep interest to students, tutors and researchers in education, policy studies and related fields, and to those who are involved in training, or becoming, the educators of the future.
The contributors are Peter McLaren, William Pinar, Mike Cole, Lisa Isherwood, Elizabeth Atkinson, Tamsin Haggis, Sue Clegg, Gill Boag-Munroe, Ros Ollin, Victoria
Series introduction | ||
Introduction | ||
1 | Critical pedagogy in the age of global empire : dispatches form headquarters | 3 |
2 | Curriculum studies and the politics of educational reform | 25 |
3 | Empires old and new : a Marxist analysis of the teaching of imperialism, actual and potential, in the English school curriculum | 47 |
4 | Incarnation in times of terror : Christian theology and the challenge of September 11th | 65 |
5 | Equality, diversity and othering : what happens to identity in a globalised world? | 79 |
6 | Linking the global and the local : some insights from dynamic systems theory | 97 |
7 | Critique and practice : closing the pedagogic gap | 113 |
8 | 'The naming of cats is a difficult matter' - how far are government and teachers using the same words to talk about educational concepts? | 131 |
9 | Professionals, poachers or street-level bureaucrats : government policy, teaching identities and constructive subversions | 151 |
10 | The Silkscreen Vickies : identity, images and icons (in the age of the research assessment exercise) | 163 |
11 | Moving on : A FAAB poem | 183 |