Critical Social Thought
Public Schools That Work: Creating Community
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory A. Smith
December 01, 1994
Public Schools That Work addresses the efforts of teachers, administrators and parents to develop alternative educational models capable of overcoming the alienation and intellectual disengagement that have become so common in American schools. Educators working in some of the best alternative ...
Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Dennis Dworkin, Leslie Roman
March 04, 1993
This collection examines the influence of Raymond Williams on the work of radical intellectuals. It especially looks at the limitation of Williams' political vision and commitment....
Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy within/in the Postmodern
1st Edition
By Patti Lather
June 10, 1994
The ways in which knowledge relates to power have been much discussed in radical education theory. New emphasis on the role of gender and the growing debate about subjectivity have deepened the discussion, while making it more complex. In Getting Smart, Patti Lather makes use of her unique ...
Working Class Without Work: High School Students in A De-Industrializing Economy
1st Edition
By Lois Weis
February 22, 1990
The author wxplores issues of race, class, and gender among white working class youths, and she considers the roles of school and family in the production of the self. The book also examines the working class teens' attitudes toward and readiness for postfeminist thinking and the emerging American ...
Contradictions of Control: School Structure and School Knowledge
1st Edition
By Linda M. McNeil
March 07, 2002
McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals....