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Informationen zum Autor Arif Dirlik Klappentext The essays in this collection address questions raised by a modernity that has become global with the victory of capitalism over its competitors in the late twentieth century. Rather than erase difference by converting all to European-American norms of modernity, capitalist modernity as it has gone global has empowered societies once condemned to imprisonment in premodernity or tradition to make their own claims on modernity, on the basis of those very traditions, as filtered through experiences of colonialism, neocolonialism, or simple marginalization by the forces of globalization. Global modernity appears presently not as global homogeneity, but as a site of conflict between forces of homogenization and heterogenization within and between nations. Prominent in this context are conflicts over different ways of knowing and organizing the world. The essays here, dealing for the most part with education in the United States, engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change that are heard from a broad spectrum of social, ethnic, and indigenous perspectives. Crucial to the essays' critique of hegemony in contemporary pedagogy is an effort shared by the contributors, distinguished scholars in their various fields, to overcome area and/or disciplinary boundaries and take the wholeness of everyday life as their point of departure. Zusammenfassung Essays that engage in critiques of hegemonic ways of knowing and critically evaluate counterhegemonic voices for change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Perspectives on Pedagogy; Chapter 1 Our Ways of Knowing—and What to Do About Them, Arif Dirlik; Chapter 2 Who Will Educate the Educators?, Peter McLaren, Ramin Farahmandpur; Chapter 3 Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neoliberalism, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 4 How New is the World of the Internet?, Alexander Woodside; Part II Our Ways of Knowing; Chapter 5 Anthropology, History, and Aboriginal Rights, Arthur J. Ray; Chapter 6 Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Prison-Industrial Complex, Dylan Rodríguez, Viet Mike Ngo; Chapter 7 The Drug War Is the New Jim Crow, Susan Searls Giroux; Chapter 8 Who Are You Rooting For?, Robert S. Chang; Part III Counterknowledges; Chapter 9 Agreement Place Boundaries versus Separatist Borders and the Essential versus Essentialism, John Brown Childs; Chapter 10 “Strategic Parochialism” and the Politics of Speaking Contexts, S. Lily Mendoza; Chapter 11 Why Spend a Lot of Time Dwelling on the Past?, Dorothee Schreiber, Dianne Newell; Chapter 12 Challenging Infallible Histories, Jason T. Younker; Chapter 13 California Colonial Histories, Kent G. Lightfoot; Part IV Education for Community; Chapter 14 Gandhi and the Social Scientists, Vinay Lal; Chapter 15 Thinking Dialectically Toward Community, Grace Lee Boggs;...
