Analyzes Gramsci's work on education, discussing right-wing attempts to subordinate public education and the role of cultural politics in spearheading this assault. The paper examines attempts by right-wing theorists to appropriate Gramsci's views on education for conservative educational work, noting implications of Gramsci's work for defending…

Changing historical conditions posit new problems, define different projects, and often demand fresh discourses. In some cases, theories fashioned in one historical moment seem hopelessly out of date, if not irrelevant, in another. Any critical theory both defines and is defined by the problems posed by the contexts it attempts to address. The…

This article analyzes the importance of extending literacy as both a historical and social construct for engaging the discourse of domination and for defining critical pedagogy as a form of cultural politics. Paulo Freire's Model of Emancipatory Literacy is discussed, and its implications for developing a radical pedagogy are explored. (MT)

This article examines major categories of classical and critical Marxism and reviews issues emerging about their usefulness for radical social theory. These issues are analyzed with regard to how they have influenced the course of radical education theory. Finally, a theoretical discourse for developing an alternative radical theory of education…

The resurgency of patriotism in America is described. Citizenship is dealt with as a historical construction and from various ideological perspectives. Ideologies underlying citizenship education in the schools, in movies, and in television are investigated. Important theoretical considerations for a critical theory of citizenship education are…

The development of the new technology in the U.S. adds to the notion that history is irrelevant and that futurists have nothing to learn from it. Public school pedagogy plays a strong role in perpetuating the hegemony of the social and economic elite. (JN)