Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education
“There really is no second choice. I don’t see any book on the market that gets at the issues McLaren does. I have used this text since it first came out and will continue to use it.”\ --Sandy M. Grande, Connecticut College\ This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy.\ Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work,...
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This text is a provocative investigation of the political, social, and economic factors underlying classroom practices, offering a unique introduction to the contemporary field of critical pedagogy. Life in Schools features excerpts from the author's best-selling work, Cries from the Corridor: The New Suburban Ghetto. The text provokes analytic discussion of social problems and a theoretical framework for formulating potential solutions (Parts III & IV). It also includes a new discussion of race and class, a chapter on the social construction of whiteness, and a new chapter that challenges current domestic and foreign policies of the current White House administration (including the No Child Left Behind Act) and their impact upon American public schooling. Booknews This work integrates the author's , a 1980 collection of diary entries written when he was a school teacher in a working-class and immigrant Canadian neighborhood, with reflections on the fundamental contradictions of capitalist schooling in North America. The author provides a socio-political context for understanding racism, sexism, and homophobia and helps teachers challenge capitalist schooling by empowering their students with a critical ideology and a set of political strategies. McLaren, known for his original contributions to educational theory and for his political activism, teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of 35 books. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Pt. 1Reflections on life in schools : forging a new beginning in an age of political deceit and imperial grandeur1Pt. 2Cries from the corridor : teaching in the suburban ghetto611The frontiers of despair692The invisible epidemic1033"The suburbs was supposed to be a nice place ..."139Pt. 3Critical pedagogy : an overview1834The emergence of critical pedagogy1855Critical pedagogy : a look at the major concepts194Pt. 4Analysis2256Race, class, and gender : why students fail2267New and old myths in education2378Teachers and students2419Conclusions to parts three and four252Pt. 5Looking back, looking forward25710Unthinking whiteness, rethinking democracy : toward a revolutionary multiculturalism26011Hope and the struggle ahead29512Conclusions to part five319
\ BooknewsThis work integrates the author's , a 1980 collection of diary entries written when he was a school teacher in a working-class and immigrant Canadian neighborhood, with reflections on the fundamental contradictions of capitalist schooling in North America. The author provides a socio-political context for understanding racism, sexism, and homophobia and helps teachers challenge capitalist schooling by empowering their students with a critical ideology and a set of political strategies. McLaren, known for his original contributions to educational theory and for his political activism, teaches in the Division of Urban Schooling, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California-Los Angeles. He is the author and editor of 35 books. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
