Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation Rethinking Critical Pedagogy [Hardcover]

Progressive educational approaches are currently in crisis in the face of globalization and?conservative retrenchment. This?book proposes a new framework for critical pedagogy that develops strategies for responding to the proceduralization of schooling and public life in general.The Time of Educational Liberation in the Age of Empire * Stretched Dialectic: Starting From Frantz Fanon *Conceptualizing Oppression in Educational Theory: Toward a Compound Standpoint * Clearings and Enclosures: Primitive Accumulation and Contemporary Schooling * Difference, Power, and Pedagogy * A Contemporary Philosophy of Praxis * Globality, Globalization, and Critical Pedagogy

Any viable notion of critical education has to consistently interrogate its most fundamental assumptions in light of a changing political, economic, and cultural landscape. This book represents not only the best of what critical education can offer, but also addresses the fundamental challenges and struggles that open up a future in which a real democracy seems possible. An insightful and provocative book that should be read by anyone who believes there is a relationship between education, justice, and democracy. - Henry A. Giroux, Global Television Network Chair and Professor of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University

Power, Crisis, and Education for Liberation challenges educators to courageously extend our analysis of culture, schooling, and power, by entering more willfully into the minefield of politics and economics.In so doing, De Lissovoy proposes an embodied pedagogy of opposition, grounded in both the realities of global capital and the particularities of everyday life. In the midst of today's growing despair, his message of possibility can invigorate our educational struggles against the ravages of neoliberalism and the blight left behind in its wake. - Antonia Darder, Professor of Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign