Teaching About Hegemony Race, Class and Democracy in the 21st Century /

• Main Author: Orlowski, Paul (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Explorations of Educational Purpose, 17
• Subjects: Education.; Educational policy.; ducation and state.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Sociology of Education.; Educational Policy and Politics.

Political progressives in Canada and the United States are deeply concerned by the manner in which their countries treat their poor. They are dismayed at the dismantling of the social welfare state, the weakening of public education systems and the grotesque and ever-growing inequality of wealth. To...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: An Introduction
• PART A: Mostly Theory – Ideology, Discourse, Hegemony & the Curriculum
• Chapter 2: What’s Ideology Got to do With It?
• Chapter 3:  The Power of Discourse
• Chapter 4:  The Purpose of  Schooling: Ideology in the Formal and ‘Enacted’ Curriculum
• PART B: Less Theory, More Applications and Practice: Deconstructing Racial and Class Discourses for a Stronger Democracy
• Chapter 5: Teaching about Race & Racism in Our Past & Present
• Chapter 6:  Social Class - The Forgotten Identity Marker in Social Studies Education
• Chapter 7:  Liberal Discourses About Aboriginal Students  – A Case Study of Power Blindness
• Chapter 8:  Ideology, Democracy and the ‘Good’ Citizen
• Chapter 9: Neoliberalism: Laissez Faire Economics Revisited?
• Chapter 10: Some Final Reflections - Dare the Schools Teach for a Fair Social Order?.