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  • Learning, Identity, and Difference

    Mary Darmanin's Inspiration

    Edited by Peter Mayo ...
    Series series Excursions in Criticality: Education, Cultural Studies and Politics
    Learning, Identity, and Difference: Mary Darmanin’s Inspiration brings together important contributions to the large area of Sociology of Education and around themes of social and ecological difference. It also foregrounds identity issues in an intersectional manner, covering social class, gender (including sexual orientation and women’s studies), race/ethnicity, and the politics of enablement. ... Read more

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  • Culture, Power and Education

    Representation, Interpretation, Contestation

    by Peter Mayo ...
    Series series Critical Interventions
    Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power.Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how many hegemonic social relationships are fundamentally educational relationships. In doing so, Mayo ... Read more

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  • Critical Education in International Perspective

    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Education
    Critical Education in International Perspective presents new perspectives on critical education from Latin America, Southern Europe and Africa. While recognising the valuable work in critical education emerging from North America and the Northern hemisphere, testimony to Paulo Freire's influence there, this book sheds light on parts of the world that are not given prominence. The book highlights ... Read more

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  • Lorenzo Milani, The School of Barbiana and the Struggle for Social Justice

    Series Book 1 - Education and Struggle
    This book sheds light on the work of one of the 20th century’s foremost critical educators, the Italian Lorenzo Milani (1923–1967), on the 90th anniversary of his birth. It provides an exposition and critical analysis of the ideas contained in his writings, ideas that emerged from his experiences in two Tuscan localities. The work of Milani and the School of Barbiana that he directed provide ... Read more

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  • Lifelong Learning, Global Social Justice, and Sustainability

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines lifelong learning from different angles and follows the trajectory beginning with the expansive notion of lifelong education promoted by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and its subsequent version intended to better suit the neoliberal framework and make EU countries more competitive in the global economy. The authors critique this ... Read more

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  • Higher education in a globalising world

    Community engagement and lifelong learning

    by Peter Mayo ...
    Series series Universities and Lifelong Learning
    This book focuses on current policy discourse in Higher Education, with special reference to Europe. It discusses globalisation, Lifelong Learning, the EU’s Higher Education discourse, this discourse’s regional ramifications and alternative practices in Higher Education from both the minority and majority worlds with their different learning traditions and epistemologies. It argues that these ... Read more

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  • Hegemony and Education Under Neoliberalism

    Insights from Gramsci

    by Peter Mayo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Education, Neoliberalism, and Marxism
    Based in a holistic exposition and appraisal of Gramsci’s writings that are of relevance to education in neoliberal times, this book--rather than simply applying Gramsci's theories to issues in education--argues that education constitutes the leitmotif of his entire oeuvre and lies at the heart of his conceptualization of the ancient Greek term hegemony that was used by other political theorists ... Read more

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  • Politics of Indignation

    Imperialism, Postcolonial Disruptions and Social Change.

    by Peter Mayo ...
    Politics of Indignation is a challenging, accessible and exciting book. Not only does it provide a critical analysis of the neoliberal onslaught on public education in many countries including Cuba, Nicaragua and the Arab worldit also offers new insights into the dynamics of control, while demonstrating how and where resistance has succeeded. ... Read more

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  • Learning and Social Difference

    Exploring how global changes affect education today, in the classroom and in local, national, and international contexts, this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique), immigration, antiracist education, parental involvement in schools, national curricula, Paulo Freire's ... Read more

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  • International Critical Pedagogy Reader

    Carefully curated to highlight research from more than twenty countries, the International Critical Pedagogy Reader introduces the ways the educational phenomenon that is critical pedagogy are being reinvented and reframed around the world. A collection of essays from both historical and contemporary thinkers coupled with original essays, introduce this school of thought and approach it from a ... Read more

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  • Education in Small States

    Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas

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    This book focuses on education in small states. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of different aspects of educational provision in political jurisdictions having a very small population – populations which encounter specific challenges, threats and opportunities. This book presents a balance in regional representation – covering the South Pacific, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gramsci and Education

    Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is one of the major social and political theorists of the 20th century whose work has had an enormous influence on several fields, including educational theory and practice. Gramsci and Education demonstrates the relevance of Antonio Gramsci's thought for contemporary educational debates. The essays are written by scholars located in different parts of the world, a ... Read more

    $60.99 USD