Education for social justice: provocations and challenges

Educational Theory

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 221-236

  Hytten, Kathy ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 38149026672     PISSN: 00132004     EISSN: 17415446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-5446.2006.00013.x     Document Type: Article

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1. James A. Beane and Michael W. Apple, "The Case for Democratic Schools," in Democratic Schools, eds. Michael W. Apple and James A. Beane (Alexandria, Virginia: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1995), 6-7.
2. Walter C. Parker, Teaching Democracy: Unity and Diversity in Public Life (New York: Teachers College Press, 2003), 54.
3. George S. Counts, Dare the School Build a New Social Order (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1932), 37-38.
4. John Dewey, "The Democratic Conception in Education" (1916), in John Dewey: The Middle Works, 1899-1924, vol. 9, ed. Jo Ann Boydston (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), 93.
5. Among many educators, the term globalization is often tantamount to global capitalism, and thus they resist what is done in the name of globalization. Antiglobalization activists challenge globalization as a process driven by profit motivations, as opposed to what it might be in the ideal: networking for global improvement.
6. Peter McLaren, Life in Schools: An Introduction to Critical Pedagogy in the Foundations of Education, 4th ed. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon/Pearson, 2003), 188, 186.
7. Henry Giroux, "Is There a Place for Cultural Studies in Colleges of Education?" in Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice, eds. Henry Giroux and Patrick Shannon (New York: Routledge, 1997), 231.
8. Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton, Teaching to Change the World, 2d ed. (Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2003), xiv.
9. Lee Anne Bell, "Theoretical Foundations for Social Justice Education," in Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice: A Sourcebook, eds. Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Pat Griffin (New York: Routledge, 1997), 3.
10. Ibid.
11. Deborah Meier, In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 95.
12. See, for example, Kennon M. Sheldon and Bruce J. Biddle, "Standards, Accountability, and School Reform: Perils and Pitfalls," Teachers College Record 100, no. 1 (1998): 164-180;
13. and Alfie Kohn, What Does it Mean to Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies (Boston: Beacon Press, 2004).
14. Dennis Carlson and Greg Dimitriadis, "Introduction," in Promises to Keep: Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life, eds. Greg Dimitriadis and Dennis Carlson (New York: Routledge-Falmer, 2003), 3. This book will be cited as PK in the text for all subsequent references.
15. Nadine Dolby and Greg Dimitriadis with Paul Willis, Learning to Labor in New Times (New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004). This book will be cited as LL in the text for all subsequent references.
16. Francisco Ibáñ ez-Carrasco and Erica R. Meiners, "Introduction - Making Knowledge Public: Overturning an Audience," in Public Acts: Disruptive Readings on Making Curriculum Public, eds. Francisco Ibáñ ez-Carrasco and Erica R. Meiners (New York: RoutledgeFalmer, 2004), 1. This book will be cited as PA in the text for all subsequent references.
17. Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott (1982; Burbank, California: Warner Home Video, 2004).
18. Paul Willis, Learning to Labor: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (New York: Columbia University Press, 1977), 2.
19. David Mills and Robert Gibb, "'Centre' and Periphery: An Interview with Paul Willis," Cultural Anthropology 16, no. 3 (2001): 388-414.
20. Linda Darling-Hammond, "Educating a Profession for Equitable Practice," in Learning to Teach for Social Justice, eds. Linda Darling-Hammond, Jennifer French, and Silvia Paloma Garcia-Lopez (New York: Teachers College Press, 2002), 201.
21. Kathryn Bell McKenzie and James Joseph Scheurich, "The Corporatizing and Privatizing of Schooling: A Call for Grounded Critical Praxis," Educational Theory 54, no. 4 (2004): 443.
22. Wayne Ellwood, The No-Nonsense Guide to Globalization (London: Verso, 2001), 8.
23. Joel Westheimer and Joseph Kahne, "Education for Action: Preparing Youth for Participatory Democracy," in Teaching for Social Justice, eds. William Ayers, Jean Ann Hunt, and Therese Quinn (New York: Teachers College Press, 1998), 2.