Education, Power, and Personal Biography - Dialogues With Critical Educators

In dialogues with key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews, the author asks each of these thinkers to talk about the relationship between their personal experiences and their academic work. The reader will learn, through listening to these intellectual, political and personal biographies, how and why these individual scholars have struggled for more than three decades to expand the borders of critical education studies. Interviews are held with Henry Giroux, Henry Levin, Herbert Gintis, Jeannie Oakes, Martin Carnoy, Maxine Greene, Michael Apple, Samuel Bowles, Paulo Freire, Gloria Lanson-Billings and Geoff Whitty, among others.

List of contents

Carlos Alberto Torres -- Introduction to Dialogues with Critical Educators INTERVIEWS Michael W. Apple Samuel Bowles Martin Carnoy Paulo Freire Herbert Gintis Henry A. Giroux Maxine Greene Gloria Ladson-Billings Henry Levin Jeannie Oakes Geoff Whitty

About the author

Carlos Alberto Torres

Summary

In dialogues with eleven key thinkers in the area of critical education, this book documents how a tradition of study grew in the United States. Through in-depth interviews these thinkers talk about their personal experiences and their work.

Product details

• Authors: Carlos Alberto Torres, Carlos Torres Alberto
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.12.1997
• EAN: 9780415911801
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91180-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Weight: 620 g
• Series: Critical Social Thought
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Biography: general, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, Philosophy & theory of education, Philosophy and theory of education, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Higher education, tertiary education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher