Pedagogy, Democracy, and Feminism: Rethinking the Public Sphere (SUNY series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform) - Hardcover

Hernández, Adriana

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079143169X ISBN 13: 9780791431696

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1997

Synopsis

A variety of educational and broader cultural and political questions are addressed in this book such as: What are educational practices about? Where do "schooling" and "learning" take place? What is critical pedagogy? In posing these questions, the author argues that pedagogy is central to any struggle for democracy and that cultural workers must address with specificity the context in which people translate private concerns into public issues.

Hernandez connects forms of learning, knowledge production, and subjectivity formation to processes of both personal and social transformation. She offers her own experience with the Argentine Mother's Movement as a case study in feminist intellectual alignment with cultural workers.

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Review

"This book brings the First and Third Worlds into contact in important ways, whilst broaching crucial issues of identity, gender, and the social production of power." -- Colin Lankshear, Queensland University of Technology

Synopsis

A remapping of the linguistic, social, and theoretical boundaries within the discourses of pedagogy, feminism, and democracy. Hern ndez bases her analysis in her experiences as a teacher in Argentina during the 1976-1983 dictatorship of the country and the democratization that followed, linking significant cultural and political concerns to her cen

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 079143169X
• ISBN 13: 9780791431696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 123