Critical Theories in Education

Thomas S. Popkewitz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is co-editor of Foucault'sChallenge: Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Education (1998) and author of Struggling for the Soul: ThePolitics of Education and the Construction of the Teacher (1998) and A Political Sociology of Education Reform:Power/Knowledge and Power in Teaching, Teacher Education,and Research (1991). Lynn Fendler is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison.

This book examines critical theories in education research from various points of view in order to critique the relations of power and knowledge in education and schooling practices. It addresses social injustices in the field of education, while at the same time questioning traditional standards of critical theory. Drawing on recent social and literary criticism, this collection identifies conversations across disciplines that address the theoretical and methodological challenges in educational debate. "Critical Theories in Education" offers a rethinking of Marxist theories of education, joining issues of teaching and pedagogy with issues of the state and economy, social movements, literary criticism, pragmatism and postcolonialism.

Acknowledgments Series Editors' Introduction Preface Introduction Thomas S. Popkewitz -- Critical Traditions, Modernisms, and the Posts Part One: The Changing Terrain of Knowledge and Power Thomas S. Popkewitz -- A Social Epistemiology of Educational Research Part Two: The Changing Terrains of Pedagogy Nicholas C. Burbules and Rupert Berk -- Critical Thinking and Critical Pedagogy: Relations, Differences, and Limits Siebren miedema and Willem L. Wardekker -- Emergent Identity Versus Consistent Identity: Possibilities for a Postmodern Repoliticization of Critical Pedagogy Part Three: The Changing Terrains of Power: Marx, Bourdieu, and Foucault Carlos Albert Torres -- Critical Theory and Political Sociology of Education: Arguments Staf Callewaert -- Philosophy of Education, Frankfurt critical Theory, and the Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu James D. Marshall -- The Mode of Information and Education: Insights on Critical Theory from Michael Foucault Lynn Fendler -- Making Trouble: Prediction, Agency, and Critical Intellectuals Part Four: The Changing Terrains of Literary Theory, Pragmatism, and the Liberal Arts Pradeep A. Dhillon -- (Dis)Locating Thoughts: Where Do the Birds Go After the Last Sky? Lynda Stone -- Reconstructing Dewey's Critical Philosophy: Toward a Literary Pragmatist Criticism JoAnne Pagano -- Critical Education and the Liberal Arts Contributors About the Editors Index