Critical Pedagogy for Social Justice [Hardcover]

John Smyth is Research Professor of Education at the University of Ballarat, Australia. He was formerly the Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA. He is Emeritus Professor, Flinders University of South Australia, where he held the Foundation Chair of Teacher Education, was Associate Dean of Research, and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching. Among his twenty published books are: 'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded; Teachers in the Middle; Critical Discourses in Teacher Development; Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal; Critically Engaged Learning; Hanging in with Kids in Tough Times.

ContentsAcknowledgementsFiguresChapter 1 Critical Hope that aims to counter the crippling fatalism of neoliberalism'Opening explanatory commentEducated hope - a prolegomenonGetting Control of Destiny'Critical hopethe real deal!Chapter 2 Teachers-as-intellectuals in neoliberal timePreambleThe basis of the argumentTeaching as intellectual workArguing for a critical pedagogy of teachingChallenging management pedagogies'A critical re-imagining of teachingTeachers as intellectuals/political actorsProblematizing approaches to teachingTeaching for social responsibility and against the grainTeaching for democracy and social justiceCritical teaching and critical pedagogy in the classroomConclusionChapter 3Students-as-activists in their own learningContinuing the arguments for student voiceImplications for school culture, organization and leadershipClimbing over the rocks in the road: the case of Mango High SchoolThe wider context of Mango High School and it's contextThe research problem and methodologyNavigation a pathway towards relationshipsWhen students have relational power': the school as a site for identity formationLeadership matters!Chapter 4 Critically Engaged Community Capacity Building' that Speaks Back' to Social ExclusionIntroductionWorking from the margins - orlÍ