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Curriculum for utopia : social reconstructionism and critical pedagogy in the postmodern era / William B. Stanley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stanley, William B., author.
- Series:
- Teacher empowerment and school reform.
- SUNY series, teacher empowerment and school reform
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curriculum change--United States.
- Curriculum change.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Education--United States--Philosophy.
- Education.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 266 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, New York : State University of New York Press, [1992]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the relationship between contemporary forms of critical theory and social reconstructionism, as they relate and contribute to the construction of a radical theory of education. It illustrates many of the persistent issues, problems, and goals of radical educational reform, including the importance of developing a language of possibility, utopian thought, and the critical competence necessary to reveal and deconstruct forms of oppression. Stanley perceptively and clearly reexamines new challenges posed to various forms of critical pedagogy (including reconstructionism) by the development of postmodern and poststructuralist theory, focusing on the connections and continuities between them.
- Contents:
- 1. Critical Pedagogy and Educational Reform: An Introduction
- 2. The Reconstructionist Program
- 3. Reconstructionism: Critical Reaction and Influence on Mainstream Curriculum Theory
- 4. Critical Pedagogy and Reconstructionism
- 5. Neopragmatism, Poststructuralism, and Critical Pedagogy
- 6. Curriculum, Reconstruction, and Possibility.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-253) and indexes.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781438420950
- 1438420951
- 9780585077123
- 0585077126
- OCLC:
- 1239988343
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