Learning and Social Difference

Exploring how global changes affect education today, in the classroom and in local, national, and international contexts, this book explores the future of education's capacity for effectiveness in multicultural and multilingual contexts. The chapters deal with lifelong learning (a critique), immigration, antiracist education, parental involvement in schools, national curricula, Paulo Freire's legacy, insights from the work of Lorenzo Milani and the School of Barbiana, and Gramsci's writings on the school. There are both theoretical and empirically grounded chapters in this volume.

Peter Mayo is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Malta. Carmel Borg is Dean of the Faculty of Education, University of Malta.

Foreword, Peter McLaren

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1 Introduction: Critical Pedagogy in Neoliberal Times

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(10)

Part I International and National Policy Issues

11

(40)

2 The EU Memorandum on Lifelong Learning: Old Wine in New Bottles?

13

(20)

3 Social Difference, Cultural Arbitrary, and Identity: An Analysis of a National Curriculum Document in a Nonsecular Environment

33

(18)

Part II Improving the Face of Schools and Other Pedagogical Sites

51

(40)

4 "Changing the Face of the School": Parental Involvement in a Working-Class Community

53

(22)

5 Museum Education as Cultural Contestation (with Bernard Cauchi)

75

(16)

Part III Critical Pedagogy in International Perspective

91

(58)

6 Gramsci and the Unitarian School: Paradoxes and Possibilities

93

(18)

7 Making Sense of a Southern Postcolonial Context: A Freirean Perspective

111

(18)

8 Critical Pedagogy and Citizenship

129

(20)

Part IV Challenges for Critical Pedagogy in a Migratory Context

149

(28)

9 Toward an Antiracist Agenda in Education: The Case of Malta

151

(16)

10 Challenges for Critical Pedagogy: A Southern European Perspective

167

(10)

References

177

(20)

Name Index

197

(2)

Subject Index

199

(6)

About the Authors

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