Pedagogies of difference : rethinking education for social change / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trifonas, Peter Pericles, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy.

Multicultural education.

Postmodernism and education.

Physical Description:

ix, 245 p ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

Summary:

Peter Pericles Trifonas has assembled internationally acclaimed theorists and educational practitioners whose essays explore various constructions, representations, and uses of difference in educational contexts. These essays strive to bridge competing discourses of difference -- for instance, feminist or antiracist pedagogical models -- to create a more inclusive education that adheres to principles of equity and social justice.

Contents:

Introduction. Pedgagogies of Difference: Locating Otherness 1

1 Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy: Social Justice Reconsidered / Carlos Tejeda, Manuel Espinoza, Kris Gutierrez 10

2 Challenging the Construction of Difference as Deficit: Where Are Identity, Intellect, Imagination, and Power in the New Regime of Truth? / Jim Cummins 41

3 Derrida, Pedagogy, and the Calculation of the Subject / Michael Peters 61

4 Pedagogies of Difference, Race, and Representation: Film as a Site of Translation and Politics / Henry A. Giroux 83

5 Discomforting Truths: The Emotional Terrain of Understanding Difference / Megan Boler, Michalinos Zembylas 110

6 The Struggle for Happiness: Commodified Black Masculinities, Vernacular Culture, and Homoerotic Desires / Rinaldo Walcott 137

7 Inside Noah's Tent: The Sodomitical Genesis of Race in the Christian Imagination / William F. Pinar 155

8 Queer Pedagogies: Camping Up the Difference / Marla Morris 188

9 Toward an Integrative Approach to Equity in Education / Roxana Ng 206

10 Toward a Deconstructive Pedagogy of Differance / Peter Pericles Trifonas 220.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415931487

0415931495

OCLC:

49601863