Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation

An extraordinary tribute to the visions of Joyce Canaan, a vibrant academic activist who touched so many with her intellect, her acuity, her humanity and her love. Anyone interested in critical pedagogy has to read this inspiring book that takes so many slices on what the university has become and what it still might be.

(Professor Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley)

This Festschrift is a beautiful tribute to Joyce Canaan, a woman whose revolutionary intellect and commitment should be treasured and studied, not only remembered. Each contribution illuminates her voice and expands on her spirit. The result is a volume that traces how we learn in the pursuit for justice, through building and sharing knowledge within a community of struggle. This is an important volume for any student of revolutionary and feminist education.

(Sara Carpenter, Department of Educational Studies, University of Alberta)

After the great global «pause», this volume presents an exciting look forward through the memory of boundary crosser, Joyce Canaan, whose life's work scrutinized the impact of neoliberal regimes of accountability and the academy's compliance with these processes. Collectively, the contributors warn of cultural myopia: that cultural near-sightedness that stands in the way of critical engagement with exclusionary mechanisms at both the pedagogic and economic levels.

(Sheila Landers Macrine, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth)

Joyce Canaan's life illustrates what it means to be angry at social injustice and to challenge it through theory and practice, spirit and emotion, intellectual rigour, love and humour. This collection movingly and rigorously celebrates her personal contribution through engaging with contemporary issues for critical pedagogy today.

(Jim Crowther, Honorary Fellow, University of Edinburgh)

Critical Pedagogy and Emancipation: A Festschrift in Memory of Joyce Canaan offers its readers a powerful vision of how radical educational praxis based on genuine dialogue and solidarity can «humanise» both learners' and teachers' experience of education and invigorate revolutionary and socialist democratic politics of the Left. The book is written as a celebration of the legacy of Professor Joyce Canaan (1950-2018), a radical intellectual and feminist. The contributors take her project of critical pedagogical scholar-activism as their common point of departure, developing themes - drawing in particular on public sociology, social movement and popular education, as well as critical pedagogy - around critiques of the neoliberal university, popular and working-class educational movements, feminism, anti-racism, climate justice, critical theory and politically engaged teaching, learning and research.

A powerful vision of how radical educational praxis based on genuine dialogue and solidarity can 'humanise' both learners' and teachers' experience of education and invigorate revolutionary and socialist democratic politics of the Left.

Contents: Critiques of the Neoliberal University - Joyce Canaan: Resisting the English Neoliberalising University: What Critical Pedagogy Can Offer - Richard Hall: Weaving Dignity beyond the Abject University - Gordon Asher: Working In, Against, and Beyond the Neoliberal University: Critical Academic Literacies as a Critical Pedagogical Response to the Crisis of the University - Ay Salem: Joyce Canaan and the Academic Industrial Machine - Maria Nikolakaki with Joyce Canaan: The Death Knell of Public Higher Education: Greece and England Reforms in a Time of Crisis - Lisa Taylor: Becoming a Critical Educator - Social Movements, Popular Education and Community Praxis - Rebecca Hillman: Art for the Labour Movement and Everyday Acts of Political Culture - Rosi Smith, Leticia García Rosabel and Yamila Arias Verdecia: University in, for and among the Community: Experiences of University Outreach in Bartolomé Masó, Cuba - Paolo Vittoria: «The Struggle Continues»: Joyce Canaan's Political Engagement in Rio De Janeiro - Shirin Housee: Personal Is Political: Making the Private Public - Elio Di Muccio: Reflections on Politics, Praxis and Life: My Last Conversation with Joyce Canaan - Critical Pedagogy as Social Theory - Richard Johnson: Critical Pedagogy and Progressive Education: Entwined Lives - Mike Neary: An Anthropologist Studying Higher Education - Colin Waugh: Organising Critical Pedagogy in Margins and Cracks: A Strategy for Vocational Higher Education HE? - Eurig Scandrett with Shiraz Avraham, Em Edmondson, Amy Elliott, Chris Follan, Kari- Ann Johnston and Zuz Olsinova: Public Sociology and Critical Pedagogy - Stephen Cowden: Critical Pedagogy: Dialogue and Dissent.