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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Communities of difference. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 (DLC) 2004040796 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Pericles Trifonas |
ISBN: | 9781403981356 1403981353 1281364932 9781281364937 9781403963260 1403963266 9781403963277 1403963274 |
OCLC Number: | 560466904 |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 231 pages) |
Contents: | The war against children and the shredding of the social contract / Henry A. Giroux -- Tackling difference in the conservative heartland of Canada / Darren E. Lund -- Our political state in an age of globalization / John Willinsky -- Culture, postmodernity, and education : oil ̲H₂O@no.com / Blane R. Després -- Critical pedagogy in the age of neoliberal globalization / Peter McLaren -- The letter of the law/the silence of letters : poetic ruminations on love and school / Carl Leggo -- A metanarrative of emancipation / Trevor Norris -- Freirean literacy : difference that makes a difference / Carlo Ricci -- Crossing the postmodern conditions that divide : theorizing difference and the cultural politics of emancipation in critical pedagogy / Peter Pericales Trifonas and Effie Balomenos -- The technology of difference : ASCII, hegemony, and the Internet / Jason Nolan -- The phoneur : mobile commerce and the digital pedagogies of the wireless web / Robert Luke -- Difference and the Internet : when ethnic community goes on-line / Joel Weiss, Vera Nincic, and Jason Nolan -- Learning the real, theorizing the virtual I : toward a postmodern techno-epistemology / Peter Pericles Trifonas and Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. |
Responsibility: | edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. |
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Abstract:
The chapters in this collection will reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know.
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'This is a collected book that explores and heart and soul of one of the foremost dilemmas of Western culture - the tension between community and individualism - and in doing so, offers a compelling critique of the challenges of communities of difference facing neo-liberal globalizations. A timely book for unsettling times.' - Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Read more...
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- Critical pedagogy.
- Difference (Philosophy)
- Globalization -- Social aspects.
- Cultural pluralism.
- Pluralisme.
- Différence (Philosophie)
- Pédagogie critique.
- Mondialisation -- Aspect social.
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
- Philosophy & theory of education.
- Social & cultural anthropology.
- Education.