This paper is one of two which bring together leading educational researchers to consider some of the key challenges facing democracy and education during the twenty-first century, including rising social and economic inequality, political instability, and the existential threats of global pandemics and climate change. In this paper, key…

This article features the book "Rebel Literacy: Cuba's National Literacy Campaign and Critical Global Citizenship," by Mark Abendroth, a step-child of the Critical Pedagogy Program at the University of Saint Thomas. As a scholar-activist, Abendroth has produced a courageous and prescient volume that will impact the field of critical…

Contends that the Bush Administration's "America 2000" plan is a political and ideological statement that substitutes the logic of the market for the principles of democracy and ignores the need for multiculturalism in the schools. Provides some general recommendations for educational reform. (30 endnotes) (MLF)

A Marxist educator argues that democracy, social justice, and identity are radically eroded by modern globalized "hypercapitalism," and that standardization and routinization of culture has had serious, unfortunate consequences for students, teachers, texts, and societies. He proposes that critical pedagogy is one means of addressing this trend.…

Reviews "Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition" (Giroux, 1983), "Education and Power" (Apple, 1982), and "Education under Siege: The Conservative, Liberal and Radical Debate over Schooling" (Aronowitz and Giroux, 1985). Works illuminate relationship between schools, arena of culture, and economy; and enable educators to…

The demise of capitalism was theoretically prophesied by Marx who posited that the world would come to such a state of destruction and human suffering that no amount of coercion or concessions would suffice to stop the massive uprisings that would lead us into a new socialist alternative. Although the downfall of world capitalism may seem…

Reviews the work of Paulo Freire, one of the first internationally recognized educational thinkers who appreciated the relationships among education, politics, imperialism, and liberation. Discusses critical pedagogy and the place of liberation as the central project of education. (SLD)

The authors argue that many of the recently recommended public-school reforms either sidestep or abandon the principles underlying education for a democratic citizenry developed by John Dewey and others. The authors outline a teacher education curriculum that links the critical study of power, language, culture, and history to the practice of a…

Globalization has hurt both developed and developing countries. Capitalism's relations of exploitation can hurt people of color in disabling ways. Discusses the relationships among race, gender, ethnic, and class identities in order to articulate a political framework that moves toward transnational ethnic alliances, abolishing the role of capital…

Responds to an article on dichotomies in teacher education (SP 527 128), examining two additional issues: the construction of identity and critical citizenship in a world increasingly under the sway of globalization and in the thrall of commodity culture. Not discussing these issues diminishes the capacity of teacher education to participate in…

Dialog between the authors addresses multiculturalism from a critical perspective and reminds educational researchers that research is always about political representation. It is argued that researchers may have inadvertently created the populations they study because of the controlling cultural mode of their own research. (SLD)