Reviews for Children learning in context

The average rating for Children learning in context based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-03 00:00:00 Matt Matt In his introduction to Between Borders, Lawrence Grossberg explains that cultural studies is an interdisciplinary discourse that responds to the world outside the academy and focuses on contextual analyses (1-7). He sees it as tied to a practice of critical "pedagogy of articulation and risk" that refuses to see citizens as "cultural dupes," sees teachers as also citizens and not separated from other people, and respects a sense of agency in students (on based in a theory of identity based in identification and belonging) (14, 18-19). In "Living Dangerously: Identity Politics and the New Cultural Racism," Henry A. Giroux outlines his proposal of "a critical pedagogy of representation and a representational pedagogy" (47). Noting that cultural racism has changed in the last few decades, "from a notion of difference equated with deviance and cultural deprivation to a position that acknowledges racial diversity only to proclaim that different racial formations, ethnicities, and cultures pose a threat to national unity" (38); and that identity politics should not be whole-sale rejected but rather "reformulated within a politics of representation" in order to reconstruct public life and democracy (35), Giroux proposes a pedagogy in which students are afforded opportunities to deconstruct representations, recover their own "hidden histories" (50), incorporate and question the everyday in class, and interrogate the politics in local, contingent circumstances (52). In "Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process," bell hooks argues that teachers need to be embodied in the classroom, understanding the classroom as an erotic place (in not simply the sexual way). In "Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation," Peter McLaren offers "resistant postmodernism" (a revision of "ludic postmodernism" that focuses on material conditions, historicity, and the social) in order to critique liberal and conservative versions of multiculturalism, which too often view culture as a place where the should not be (or has not been) conflict. McLaren proposes that we continue to use "totalities," which are "metacritical narratives" that offer explanations, such as for freedom or about domination, while still making these totalities revisable and making analysis and action local (and still global).

Review # 2 was written on 2013-03-19 00:00:00 Michael Portnoy The butler did it. Then the butler explained it to the butler's students, in a language most of the students did not understand. Some of them learned to mimic that language; some of them gradually learned from mimicry to have some understanding--perhaps, or perhaps only a misrecognition of understanding. Those became the next generation of butlers.