Critical theory

About: Critical theory is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5372 publications have been published within this topic receiving 164765 citations.

Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

Abstract: to the rise of a neoliberalism which has both commoditized otherness and stripped away the buffers of the welfare state. The introduction establishes that, although Brennan critiques the formation of \"theory,\" he is not dismissive of theory in principle; he actually is deeply invested in a trajectory of theory, embodied in the Hegel-Marx line: Bakhtin, Lukács, Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Gramsci, Bourdieu, and Said. Lamenting the predominance of the Nietszchèan line—in which he includes Heidegger, Deleuze and Guattari, Baudrillard, Lyotard, Derrida, Vattimo, Negri, and Virilio—Brennan blasts the celebratory and uncritical use of \"poststructuralism's infinitely interchangeable metaphors of dispersal: decentered subjects, nomadism, ambivalence, the supplement, rhizomatic identity, and the constructed self—terms whose sheer quantity nervously intimates a lack of variation.\" At such polemical textual moments, we feel the full force of Brennan's bile at a discipline that has abnegated its responsibilities; at the same time, the polemic (as all polemics do) tends to create the fantasy of an other whose totality is self-evident and whose heterogeneity is merely superficial. What, indeed, about the politically engaged work of Cary Nelson, BarrettWatten, Michael Bibby, andMichael True, among others, not to mention the intellectuals left of Noam Chomsky, whose dissident work may share the anarchism of the academic left, but whose consequences have been real and whose relationship to dissenting movements in the US and throughout the world is undeniable? (Chomsky gets three short mentions in this book.) Brennan's relative exclusion of contemporary examples of Gramscian intellectuals actively engaged with social movements makes Wars ofPosition a difficult book, because it offers few models for emerging from the malaise that the academy seems to Detailfrom cover suffer from. Yet Brennan is clearly at his best when he is arguing against the received versions of theorists, engaging his Hegelian impulses to reverse the unexamined consensus. His critical reassessment of Orientalism (1978), for example, suggests that Said's foundational text on the Western fantasies of the Middle East has been misread as a Foucauldian project; rather, for Brennan, while Orientalism clearly borrows heavily from Foucault, Said ultimately is arguing against the poststructuralist doxa that underwrite much of contemporary postcolonial theory. Said, in Brennan's reading, is a crucial figure not only for his resistance to the sacred cows of poststructuralism, but also for his embrace of the public responsibilities of the intellectual.

Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives

Abstract: (1992). Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 87-99.

Critical Pedagogy: Notes from the Real World

Abstract: Contents Introduction 1 Why in The World Does Critical Pedagogy Matter? The Lesson of Dayna: One Size Does Not Fit All Three Perspectives on Pedagogy: The Artist's Notes Critical Pedagogy: What in the World Do I Think It Is? How I Came To These Understandings My Journey: First, Spanish Next, Bilingual Finally, Critical Pedagogy The Word Universe History Helps: Three Perspectives Transmission Model Generative Model Transformative Model Transmission to Transformative and Example K-W-L The World Is Changing Faster and Faster M.Greene and More New Resources Banks and Social Action The Benson Kids: Teaching is Learning Learn, Relearn, and Unlearn Your Way to Critical Pedagogy The Reflective Cycle, An Overview: More Learning, Relearning, and Unlearning The Reflective Cycle and You Notes 2 What in The World Is Critical Pedagogy? A Word About Language Dawn Does Critical Pedagogy Le Does Critical Pedagogy What's In A Name? Definitions Generative Definitions Language of Possibility, Language of Critique Vygotsky: Reaching Back to Move Forward Word by Word Banking Model of Education Conscientization Carmen Has It Rainey Doesn't-Well, Didn't Codification Culture Cultural Capital Dialectic Dialogue Discourse Hegemony Hidden Curriculum Literacies Critical Literacy: Reading the Word and the World Orate and Literate Communities Pedagogy Praxis CARMA, Critical Action Research Matrix Application Problem Posing To Groom To Name To Marginalize Schooling, or to School To Silence To Socialize Voice I Have Eaten More Rice Reflective Cycle Notes 3 Where in The World Did Critical Pedagogy Come From? The Tree Continues to Grow Why Socrates? Why Plato? Why Aristotle? Why Vygotsky? The Latin Voice Freire: The Foundation Freire's Voice: A Transcription of an Audiotape The European Voice Gramsci Marx The Frankfurt School of Critical Theory Tove Skutnabb-Kangas The Eastern Voice Reflections from the East Peace Education The North American Voice Dewey Ada McCaleb Giroux McLaren Cummins Krashen A Few (more) Good Women A Few Good Men The African American Voice: Group Solidarity The Perspective from Down Under The Historical Evolution of Critical Pedagogy The Benson Kids Again Reflective Cycle Notes 4 How in The World Do You Do Critical Pedagogy? Thinking about Practice Carla: Reflecting on Her Practice Democratic Pedagogy Praxis: Linking Theory and Practice Two Perspectives So How Do You Do Critical Pedagogy? Problem Posing: Jonathan and Wyatt, Examples from the Community Problem Posing: Miss Johnson, an Example from Secondary Schools Principles of Problem Posing The Teacher's Role in Problem Posing Problem Posing: Stephanie, an Example from the Primary Grades Problem Posing: Codification Problem Posing: Reggie, an Example from Postsecondary Homerun Reading The Essence Is in the Experience Popcorn How to Do It The Experience Pair Share How to Do It The Experience Dialogue Journal How to Do It The Experience Bloom's Taxonomies How to Do It The Experience Teaching and Learning in the Desert Four Corners How to Do It The Experience The Messenger and the Scribe How to Do It The Experience Comprehending/Comprehension How to Do It The Experience Problem-Posing Activity: Literacy How to Do It The Experience To Name To Reflect Critically To Act The Mess Mayida and the Mess NCLB Calls Us to the Mess The Proof Is in the Pudding The Principal: Doing Critical Pedagogy Talking the Talk in the University Library Mapping Reflective Cycle Notes 5 Where in The World Do We Go From Here Who Are The Students? Burke's Generational Chart: Boomers, Gen X, and Gen Y Students of the Twenty-First Century Advocacy and Action The Virtual Present and Future From Critical Literacy to Multiliteracies The Pedagogy of a Caring Heart and Critical Eyes A Caring Heart A Critical Eye Pedagogy of Courage and Patience Time, Time, Time From Buttercup to Power Teachers Taught Me, Too What Teachers Taught Me Models of Parental Involvement Family Involvement or Family Engagement Gintell Does Critical Pedagogy Family Graph Putting the Home Back in Homework Reflection to Action School Families Now, Here Is the Point To Make a Difference Bob What I Can Do Your Final Reflection Note 180 Bibliography Index

Contingency, hegemony, universality : contemporary dialogues on the left

Abstract: In an unusual experiment, three theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the universalism-versus-particularism debate, the strategies of the Left in a global economy, and the relative merits of post-structuralism and Lacanian psychoanalysis for a critical social theory.

Theory and resistance in education : towards a pedagogy for the opposition

Abstract: Foreword by Paulo Freire Preface by Stanley Aronowitz Introduction: Educated Hope, Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Resistance Theory and Critical Discourse Critical Theory and Educational Practice Schooling and the Politics Hidden Curriculum Reproduction, Resistance, and Accommodation Resistance and Critical Pedagogy Ideology, Culture, and Schooling Critical Theory and Rationality in Citizenship Education Literacy, Ideology, and the Politics of Schooling Conclusion: Toward a New Public Sphere Bibliography Index