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Freirean Pedagogy, Praxis, and Possibilities: Projects for the New Millennium. Volume 19, Critical Education Practice. Volume 1417, Garland Reference Library of Social Science

Link: http://www.taylorandfrancis.com.

This book contains 15 chapters, each by different authors, commenting and expanding on the educational philosophy and work of Paulo Freire. The following are included: "Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility" (Peter McLaren); "Studying the Media: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream" (Noam Chomsky); "Scientism as a Form of Racism" (Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo); "Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory: Marcuse, Marx, and a Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Alienation, Art, and the Humanities" (Charles Reitz); "Multiculturalism and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age" (Henry Giroux); "On 'Having Differences' and 'Being Different': From a Dialogue of Difference to the Private Language of Indifference" (George David Miller, Mark Roelof Eleveld); "Politics of Explanation: Ethical Questions in the Production of Knowledge" (Thomas Heaney); "Upstream in the Mainstream: Pedagogy against the Current" (Robert Bahruth, Stanley Steiner); "The Prairie Is Wide: Conrack Comes to 'The Rez'" (David Gabbard); "Teaching in Our Underwear: The Liabilities of Whiteness in the Multiracial Classroom" (Maryann Dickar); "Authority Is Not a Luxury: 'Courageous Dialogue' in the Feminist Classroom" (Kimberly Kay Gunter); "Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students: Voices from the 'Contact Zone'" (Juan Flores); "The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action: The Ideologies of Gender and Peer Response Sessions Perceived by a Teacher-Researcher" (Nancie Burns-McCoy); "Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It: Strategic Reform of Academic Departments in the University" (Scott Shepard); and "Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire: Possibilities for a Theory of Transformative Adult Education" (Peter Mayo). The chapters include reference lists, and the book is indexed. (KC)

• Contributor: Steiner, Stanley F.
• Author's address: Taylor and Francis Group, 7625 Empire Group, Florence, KY 41042 ($55). Tel: 800-634-7064 (Toll Free); Fax: 800-245-4724 (Toll Free)
• Date Published: 00-00
• Year: 2000

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• Network/channel: NIUSI: Families & Communities: Culture
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Learning Standards
• Network/channel: NIUSI: Professional Effort: Teaching Design & Practices

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