Yancy George - Educating for Critical Consciousness

This is an outstanding collection of essays, broad in scope and granular in detail. Yancy has assembled leading scholars and public intellectuals as a full-throated and courageous challenge to todays proliferation of neo-identitarian movements, rationalization of the warfare state, militarization of the police, atomization of the public sphere, steady expansion of the surveillance state, defense of US superpower hegemony and militarized state-capitalism augmented by the increasing power of the transnational corporate sector. This book stands as a white rose bursting through the fortress of despair, a gavel thundering through the hallways of history, waking the conscience of the living dead.

Educating for Critical Consciousness is an important and necessary response to the intellectual and psychological erosion of American discourse, politics and moral standing in the world. A cultural therapeutic for the return of the repressed.

In this politically and democratically urgent collection, George Yancy and contributors argue that more than ever, we are in need of classrooms that function dangerouslythat is, classrooms where people are not afraid to engage in critical discussions that call into question difficult political times. Collectively they demonstrate the ways activist authors and scholars must be prepared to engage in risk and vulnerability as a defense of our democratic right to practice forms of pedagogical transgression. Ideal for scholars and students of critical pedagogy, philosophy of education, and political theory, this collection delineates the necessity of critical consciousness through education, and provides ways of speaking back against authoritarian control of imaginative and critical capacities.

George Yancy is Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College. He is the author, editor, and co-editor of over 20 books and is known for his influential essays and interviews in the New York Times philosophy column The Stone.

CRITICAL SOCIAL THOUGHT SERIES

Series Editor: Michael W. Apple, University of WisconsinMadison

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The End of Public Schools

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David Hursh

The Critical Turn in Education

From Marxist Critique to Poststructuralist Feminism to Critical Theories of Race

Isaac Gottesman

The Struggle for the Soul of Teacher Education

Kenneth M. Zeichner

College Curriculum and the Crossroads

Women of Color Reflect and Resist

Ed. by Kirsten T. Edwards and Maria del Guadalupe Davidson

Educating for Critical Consciousness

Ed. by George Yancy

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Edited by George Yancy

First published 2019

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Names: Yancy, George, editor.Title: Educating for critical consciousness / edited by George Yancy.Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.Identifiers: LCCN 2018060730 | ISBN 9781138363359 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781138363366 (pbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780429431654 (ebk)Subjects: LCSH: Critical pedagogyUnited States. | EducationSocial aspectsUnited States. | Educational equalizationUnited States. | Discrimination in educationUnited States.Classification: LCC LC196.5.U6 E35 2019 | DDC 370.11/5dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018060730

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This book is dedicated to all of those who refuse to be adjusted to injustice, hatred, and bigotry.

George Yancy

Stephen Brookfield

Barbara Applebaum

Henry A. Giroux

Becky Thompson

Kimberley Ducey and Joe R. Feagin

William David Hart

Josiah Ulysses Young III

Jennifer Gale de Saxe

Stephen Preskill

Ira Shor

Joy James

Bill Bywater

Kal Alston

Cris Mayo

Kal Alston is a professor of Cultural Foundations of Education and Womens and Gender Studies at Syracuse University. Her various administrative jobs have given her insights into how higher education supports and erodes other cultural institutions. Her work in cultural and media criticism gives her insight into how the romance of education persists in the face of seismic social change. Her students teach her every day.

Barbara Applebaum, Professor in Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University, is trained in philosophy of education. Her research is heavily informed by feminist ethics, feminist philosophy, critical race theory, and critical whiteness studies. Her book, Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy (Lexington, 2010) complicates the pedagogical challenges of teaching about white complicity. Applebaums published papers have appeared in such journals as Educational Theory, Hypatia, Philosophy of Education, Teachers College Record, and Educational Foundations.

Stephen Brookfield is a white man who was born in Liverpool, England. He has spent his professional life trying to understand how to help adults think critically about their learned ideologies and how to create collaborative yet critical learning spaces. He has done this with multiple organizations, sectors, and groups, including community organizations, non-profits, corporations, media companies, the military, hospitals, and numerous schools, colleges, and universities. As part of this journey he has written, co-authored and edited 18 books on adult learning, teaching, and critical thinking, six of which have won the Cyril O. Houle World Award for Literature in Adult Education (in 1986, 1989, 1996, 2005, 2011, and 2012). He currently holds the title of Distinguished University Professor and John Ireland Endowed Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Minneapolis-St. Paul. Previously he has been a professor at Teachers College (Columbia University), Harvard University, and the University of British Columbia.