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Informationen zum Autor John Smyth is Research Professor of Education at the University of Ballarat, Australia. He was formerly the Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA. He is Emeritus Professor, Flinders University of South Australia, where he held the Foundation Chair of Teacher Education, was Associate Dean of Research, and Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching. Among his twenty published books are: 'Dropping Out', Drifting Off, Being Excluded; Teachers in the Middle (2004); Critical Discourses in Teacher Development (1995); Activist and Socially Critical School and Community Renewal (2008); Critically Engaged Learning (2008); Hanging in with Kids in Tough Times (2010). Klappentext An incisive analysis of how Critical Pedagogy can be a force for positive change in schools around the world, helping the most disadvantaged students. Vorwort An incisive analysis of how Critical Pedagogy can be a force for positive change in schools around the world, helping the most disadvantaged students. Zusammenfassung An analysis of how Critical Pedagogy can be a force for positive change in schools around the world, helping the most disadvantaged students. It shows how teachers, students, parents, communities, and researchers can develop narratives that amount to working with and for those who are increasingly being silenced, marginalised and excluded. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsList of Figures1. Critical Hope That Aims to Counter ‘the Crippling Fatalism of Neoliberalism'2. Teachers-as-Intellectuals in Neoliberal Times3. Students-as-Activists in Their Own Learning4. Critically Engaged ‘Community Capacity Building' that ‘Speaks Back' to Social Exclusion5. Continuing the Struggle... Pursuing the Light on the Hill through a Conversation with Joe KincheloeReferencesAuthor IndexSubject Index
