If classrooms matter : progressive visions of educational environments / edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo and Walter R. Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Di Leo, Jeffrey R.

Jacobs, Walter R., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classroom environment--Social aspects--United States.

Classroom environment.

Classrooms--United States--Planning.

Classrooms.

Critical pedagogy--United States.

Critical pedagogy.

Educational technology--Social aspects.

Educational technology.

Planning.

Classroom environment--Social aspects.

United States.

Educational technology--Social aspects--United States.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

Where does learning take place? In this collection of passionately argued essays, leading educators and theorists explore the "where" of pedagogy - how pedagogical processes are influenced by local conditions. Understanding this dynamic just may be the single most important ingredient to successful teaching. "If Classrooms Matter" presents some of the best known voices in critical pedagogy--Michael Apple, Henry Giroux, Stanley Aronowitz, Carol Becker, Peter McLaren--alongside essays by such well-known scholars as Mark Poster, Sharon O'Dair, David Trend, Jacqueline Bobo, and others. These thinkers explore the sensitive balance between technology, physical space, economic developments, political events, and the goals of teaching--a balance we must constantly renegotiate if classrooms are to matter at all.

Contents:

Introduction: Place, Pedagogy, Politics: Reflections on Contemporary Classroom Reconfigurations / Jeffrey R. Di Leo, Walter R. Jacobs 1

Section I The Politics of Pedagogical Space

1 The Politics of Public Pedagogy / Henry A. Giroux 15

2 Education, Social Class, and the Sites of Pedagogy / Stanley Aronowitz 37

3 Interrupting the Right: On Doing Critical Educational Work in Conservative Times / Michael W. Apple 55

4 Critical Pedagogy in a Time of Permanent War / Peter McLaren, Nathalia E. Jaramillo 75

Section II Re-Ruling the Classroom: The Possibilities of Places

5 The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum as a Scene of Pedagogical Address / Elizabeth Ellsworth 95

6 Pilgrimage to My Lai: Social Memory and the Making of Art / Carol Becker 115

7 Professionalism: What Graduate Students Need / Andrew Hoberek 131

8 Class Work: Site of Egalitarian Activism or Site of Embourgeoisement? / Sharon O'Dair 149

Section III The Actualities of Media Interventions

9 Media, Activism, and the Classroom: Teaching Black Feminist Cultural Criticism / Jacqueline Bobo 167

10 Back to Cyberschool: Some of the Learning, None of the Fun / David Trend 181

11 Where in the World is the Global Classroom Project? / TyAnna K. Herrington 197

12 History in the Digital Domain / Mark Poster 211.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415971578

0415971586

OCLC:

55765699