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Philip Wexler

Philip Wexler has written extensively about his “kinship” to the critical pedagogy movement. He is a critical social analyst, with a long-standing specialization in education. He was educated in “classical” sociological theory, anthropology, social statistics and cognitive psychology. Despite his “establishment” education and involvement in the mainstream of sociology of education (as editor of the American Sociological Association journal in education, Sociology of Education), he was early drawn to critical social theory, in the work of the Frankfurt School, and in so-called “Western Marxism,” generally.

Class

“Cutting Class in a Dangerous Era: A Critical Pedagogy of Class Awareness”
(2007) Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg (Eds.) in Cutting Class: Socioeconomic Status and Education by Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg.
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“Class Dismissed? Historical materialism and the politics of 'difference'”
(2004) Educational Philosophy and Theory, Vol. 36, No.2. By Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Dannibale and Peter McLaren.

Critical Pedagogy and Research

"Bricolage and the Quest for Multiple Perspectives: New Approaches to Research in Ethnic Studies" by Joe L. Kincheloe
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"Beyond Reductionism: Difference, Criticality and Multilogicality in the Bricolage and Postformalism" by Joe L. Kincheloe
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"Historical Research in Education" in Kenneth Tobin and Joe L. Kincheloe (2006), Doing Educational Research: A Handbook by Leila Villaverde, Joe L. Kincheloe and Frances Helyar
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Hip Hop Artist Vox Sambou Music Video in Haiti

Posted Fri, 01/22/2010 - 21:13 by Shirley Steinberg

Sisters and Brothers...the words have been said for the past 8 days about Haiti....here are words from a dear friend of ours in Montreal, done while he was home in Haiti...send it around.  send the music...

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Post # 9 - Wow, Chapter 10 was informative...

Posted Tue, 07/21/2009 - 19:47 by Tanya

Wow,

I was so impressed with the Timothy Stanley Chapter - "The Banality of Colonialism". Not only was this chapter relevant, because I now reside in Vancouver, but his ability to bring me on his journey from UBC to Chinatown really engaged me.

Furthermore, finding out historical information about our University, the Endowment Lands, Kitsilano and Chinatown was mesmerizing. I'm shocked about what happened during colonialism in Vancouver. Aboriginals were forced to live on smaller lots, Chinese immigrants were confined to a smaller part of town, and European settlers were incredible bullies. It's sickening and heartbreaking all at once.

Blog #2: PRIVATE SCHOOL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY

Posted Fri, 07/10/2009 - 13:20 by Shanaz Ramji

PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND EQUITY: I am wondering if those of you in our classroom who are private school teachers are having some of the same tensions and anxieties that I am having. I have been teaching in independent schools for over 22 years and it is not until these first two masters’ courses that I have begun to think about the topics of social justice and equity. I believe I have been an agent of misrecognition (a term Wendy Poole used in her analysis of Bourdieau). I have taken for granted where I am and not thought about or critically analyzed what was going on around me. I decided to write my first paper in the last course on the neoliberal perspectives and independent education.

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Positionality and Ideology

Posted Thu, 07/09/2009 - 19:16 by Shirley Steinberg

In just reiterating our conversation today, the ideas presented regarding ideology and positionality are serious enough to discuss again.  As individuals, we all identify with a positionality, or multiple positionalities.  That said, we also have ideological perspectives which assist in determining how we fit within our own webs of reality.  We first find comfort in the safety of like-looking people, those who seem to have a similar background and environment.  The catch, though, is when we identify that those who look like us, often don't believe as we do. 

 

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Social justice activism at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) - April 2009

Posted Thu, 02/26/2009 - 19:35 by lizjmeyer

I'm posting this letter that has been circulated on several AERA listservs but thought it was important to bring it to the attention of those who aren't current AERA members or other scholars interested in what is going on with AERA and activism by scholars who disagree with decisions made by the leadership at AERA.

There has been lively discussion on the Queer SIG list about how to deal with sessions in the Hyatt - some suggested responses include:

1) Attend/present at the session but wear a button or armband to visibly indicate your protest

2) Do not purchase food or services from the Hyatt.  One scholar said he'd like to buy his coffee and muffin across the street, leave a tip for the waitstaff in the Hyatt, and go to his session - use their space and services but don't spend $$.

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Memories and examples of why I am interested in what I have been doing!

Posted Mon, 09/15/2008 - 11:58 by Gillwoo Lee

                  I have been pursuing critical pedagogy and genuine democracy since I experienced them through a small number of professors and reading references. I never believe the ideologies and the practices from them are universal truths that more people must believe. However, they at least have given me a lot of critical and transformative ideas in my daily and academic lives to fight against and overcome subordinating and oppressing social and educational systems and stand for the people who need empowerment.

 

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The Branding of “Social Justice”

Posted Sat, 09/13/2008 - 22:54 by Noah De Lissovoy

Thinking critically about education, but also newly and creatively, means carefully examining the way that language and labels are used, especially in official institutional contexts.

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The vicissitudes of critical pedagogy: Drinking the Kool-aide

Posted Sat, 08/30/2008 - 21:49 by Joe Kincheloe

It is always fascinating to me to observe the way effective critical pedagogues are positioned in many faculties/colleges of education. Outside of the domain of critical pedagogy when professors are deemed to be very good at what they do, they are called “brilliant student-centered teachers.” In critical pedagogy such virtuoso teaching is very often referred to as building a cult following. As I think of the great critical pedagogues in schools of education around North America over the last three decades, in every case I have heard colleagues and peers around the continent refer to them as cult leaders. There’s profound insight to be gained from the analysis of such comments.

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Rethinking Critical Pedagogy

Posted Thu, 06/05/2008 - 09:25 by Noah De Lissovoy

I am excited to have been invited by Joe and Shirley to do a blog as part of this important virtual community. The focus of my blog will be on rethinking critical pedagogy. I take it as basic that any tradition must be able to fundamentally examine its assumptions in response to changing historical conditions; of course it is often easier not to do so. But if critical pedagogy is to remain vital, it has to be able to interrogate itself in a sustained manner. In this first blog I want to suggest a few reasons why such a rethinking is in order in the present.

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