Constructing critical consciousness : narratives that unmask hegemony and ideas for creating greater equity in education / edited by Virginia Lea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lea, Virginia, 1947- editor.

Series:

Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 414.

Counterpoints: studies in the postmodern theory of education ; vol. 414

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational equalization--United States.

Educational equalization.

United States.

Hegemony--United States.

Hegemony.

Racism--United States.

Racism.

White people--Race identity--United States.

White people.

White people--Race identity.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Peter Lang, [2014]

Summary:

Since its inception, public education in the United States has contributed to the reproduction of a socio-economic and political hierarchy with ingrained inequities and inequalities. The primary goals of public education have included socializing young people to become docile, patriotic citizens serving the nation-state, thus preparing them to fit into a corporate global economy. This hegemonic process requires us to come to see dominant cultural ideas, values, and beliefs as "normal" or "common sense". Constructing Critical Consciousness unmasks the everyday colonizing operations of hegemonic power, often under the guise of progressive language. Through critical multicultural research and critical race, class, and gender narratives, the book exposes some of the barriers encountered in challenging hegemony and offers ideas for interrupting hegemony in teacher and K-12 education. Its features include research and narratives that identify how power operates in the field of education through micro-aggressions and oppressions to construct consciousness and reproduce the status quo; a collection of short, invited narratives by educators who have been working to expose and transform hegemony; and practical ideas for interrupting the hegemonic processes described in the narratives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: constructing critical consciousness : narratives that unmask hegemony, including "race", and ideas for creating greater equity in education

Constructing critical consciousness : narratives that unmask hegemony

The interrelated hierarchy of power

Overview of historical, economic, political, and educational hegemonic narratives

Mechanisms of power that mask hegemony and construct identities / With contributions from Lawrence Charlier and Ashley Timmers

Research narratives that unveil hegemony / With Dang Yang

Raging against hegemony : invited narratives that unmask hegemony / by Virginia Harris & Jean Ishibashi

Dispelling the voices of the powerful that inhabit us / by Piri Ackerman-Barger, Ann Berlak, & Roberta Ahlquish

Unmasking homophobia, colonialism and racism / by Koko Jones, Patrick Allen, Sally Savas, Sydney Casey, Stephanie Amormino, & Virginia Lea

Alternative, critical multicultural, abolitionist pedagogies that facilitate critical literacies / with Antonio Del Prete, Babatunde Lea, Molly Ware, Mayana Lea & Janani Srikantahrajah

Afterword

Postscript : a resource for understanding standardization a mechanism of power / by Harold Berlak

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1433113503

9781433113512

1433113511

9781433113505

OCLC:

862148830

Publisher Number:

99960582514