Synopses & Reviews
Communities of Difference looks at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas and contributors argue that a "community" is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know.
Review
"This is a collected book that explores and heart and soul of one of the foremost dilemmas of Western culture--the tension between community and individualism--and in doing so, offers a compelling critique of the challenges of communities oif difference facing neo-liberal globalizations. A timely book for unsettling times."--Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles
Synopsis
This book will look at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas argues that a 'community' is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection will reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know.
Synopsis
Peter McLaren * Henry A. Giroux * Carl Leggo * Blane Deprés * John Willinsky * Darren Lund * Trevor Norris* Carlo Ricci * Robert Luke * Jason Nolan * Joel Weiss * Effie Balomenos * Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr * Vera Nincic
About the Author
Peter Trifonas is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto. He is the author of
Revolutionary Pedagogies,
Pedagogies of Difference, and
Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (edited with Jacques Derrida).
Table of Contents
Introduction: Communities of Difference--Peter Pericles Trifonas *
Part One: Culture, Difference, Community * Shredding of the Social Contract: The War Against Children--Henry A. Giroux * Tackling Difference in the Conservative Heartland of Canada--Darren E. Lund * Our Political State in an Age of Globalization--John Willinsky * culture, postmodernity, &education:
[email protected] R. Després * Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization--Peter McLaren *
Part Two: Language, Difference, Community * The Letter of the Law/The Silence of Letters: Poetic Ruminations on Love and School--Carl Leggo * Metanarratives of Emancipation--Trevor Norris * Freirean Literacy: Difference That Makes a Difference--Carlo Ricci * Crossing the Postmodern Conditions that Divide--Peter Pericles Trifonas and Effie Balomenos *
Part Three: Technology, Difference, Community * The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony and the Internet--Jason Nolan * The Phoneur: Mobile Commerce and the Digital Pedagogies Of the Wireless Web--Robert Luke * Difference and the Internet--Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Vera Nincic * Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual I--Peter Pericles Trifonas, Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr