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An account of the only community theatre network in Africa that is run by grassroots artists on a national and international scale.

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An analysis of contemporary global capitalism, discussing why critical educators need to challenge it. Paula Allman argues that critical education is needed to form a movement capable of challenging and then transforming capitalism.

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The single most important educational theory in schools and universities today is not derived from Dewey, Piaget, R. This work describes public choice theory in its component parts and as a coherent and potent contemporary factor influencing education today.

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The translation of Lyotard's work into English in 1984 marked an important stage in the globalization of the modernity/postmodernity debate involving the central thinkers of the late 20th century, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and others.

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This critical ethnography of school libraries contributes to the study of the politics of literacy at the elementary school level as well as provides an interesting case study of border crossing.

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Each essay in this unique collection by and for educators, is devoted to the work and educational significance of one of ten major poststructuralist philosophers.

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Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school.

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This book addresses an area that is theoretically undeveloped in educational studiesthe constitution of the human subject. What is needed is the development of a psychodynamic 'social psychology of classes.' According to the author, we need to investigate the differential relations between institutional and self-formative processes.

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Believing that transformation is possible and that it must come from within, Clar Doyle illustrates the vital connection between drama and critical pedagogy.

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The purpose of the book is to explore campus culture as revealed through rituals and ceremonies.

While rituals are unique to each campus, this book discusses higher education ceremonies and traditions and offers explanations about the roles they play in building and maintaining campus culture.

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The idea that radical adult educators should build civil society through social movements is the dominant paradigm within the adult education left today.

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He helps us understand that the political relationship between schools and society is neither artificial nor neutral nor necessarily negative.

Choice

Offers educators ways for reflecting critically on their own practices and the relationship between schools and society.

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At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capitalism that monopolizes the educational force of culture as it ruthlessly eliminates those public spheres not governed by the logic of the market.

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This book calls for a new type of teacher education that empowers teachers to be self-directed professionals. Joe Kincheloe believes that the current trend of teaching teachers to learn an empirical knowledge base which they then implement in their classrooms is demeaning to teachers and teaches them not to think.

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Dialectically linking architectural education and society, the book presents authors who conceptualize architectural pedagogy within a critical analysis of the larger society, and who construct forms of teaching and learning experiences that reveal and contest professional and societal directions.

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Peter Mayo offers a broad perspective on the work and life of Paolo Freire, clarifying the process by which his ideas emerged and his development as a social thinker.

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Peters and Marshall examine the parallels between the later Wittgenstein and French poststructuralism, and investigate the appropriation of Wittgenstein's work by postrstructuralists.