Worlds of difference : rethinking the ethics of global education for the 21st century / edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trifonas, Peter Pericles, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational anthropology.

Educational equalization.

Postmodernism and education.

Physical Description:

viii, 264 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Educational institutions have not traditionally tolerated the value of subjective differences among student populations. Adding to this difficulty, the varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Rethinking the terms of education for social justice requires the recognition of difference within curricula but also requires examination of where those interests, conflict.

Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity. Theorists and Educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a "curriculum of difference" in relation to questions of language, culture, and media at the forefront of global education issues today. Collectively, the authors argue that education in theory and practice must reawaken an ethical consciousness that affirms the negative values of difference, but still recognizes the uniqueness and particularity of each group.

Contents:

1 Strategic Alliance or Hegemonic Strategy? Multicultural Conservatism in America / Michael W. Apple 11

2 The "Them" and the "I" of a Hurricane: Broadcast News Influences on the Reality and Attitudes of Its Viewers / Jonathan Arendt 29

3 Technological Transformation, Multiple Literacies, and the Re-Visioning of Education / Douglas Kellner 45

4 On Cultural Identity and Difference / Brenda Trofanenko 73

5 The Promise of a Better Future: Four Approaches to Including Aboriginal English in Australian Classrooms / Neil Harrison 85

6 Transcreation, Transformance, and the Fertility of Difference: Reading Language Difference Through the Lens of Translation / Lisa Taylor 103

7 Contesting the New "Young Hegelians": Interrogating Capitalism in a World of "Difference" / Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Peter McLaren 137

8 Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual II: From Technology to Worlds of Difference / Peter Pericles Trifonas, Paulo Ghiraldelli, Jr. 179

9 Youth and the Politics of Education in Dark Times / Henry A. Giroux 199

10 Being Caught Otherwise / Mario Di Paolantonio 217

11 Moving Beyond the Modernist/Postmodernist Knowledge Binary: Toward a Cosmopolitical Pedagogy and a New Academic Responsibility / Gregory O'Leary, Peter Pericles Trifonas 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781594513879

1594513872

OCLC:

123818241