Talking Truth, Confronting Power: 6 - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1858564328 ISBN 13: 9781858564326

Casa editrice: Trentham Books Ltd, 2008

Riassunto

This sixth volume in Trentham’s Discourse, Power, Resistance series brings together an international team of writers to get to grips with the issues of marginalized knowledges and silenced voices, and the ways and means of speaking out.

Part 1, Uncovering Truth, opens with analyses of neoliberal notions of what counts as knowledge. Both criticize the cramped research methodologies that produce it and expose the ruthlessness of the cultural politics at work in the preservation of epistemological orthodoxy. This is illustrated by examples from Canada, Central America and the UK. The arguments of Part 1 are then brought together with a powerful restatement of Edward Said’s critique of cultural imperialism.

Part 2, Talking Truth, challenges the silencing of resistant voices and insists that uncomfortable, disquieting truths must be told. Topics include how education is heading the wrong way, including a model that constructs learners as essentially clients in need of emotional care, thus frustrating their proper aspirations; how marginalized and silenced cultural groups are finding their voices and speaking out; and how unsayable things about race are being said. The book ends with a passionate advocacy of speaking from lived experience as a basis of sound knowledge.

The contributors include: Norman Denzin (USA), Susan Heald (Canada), Ken Montgomery (Canada), Fazal Rizvi (USA), and James Rolling (USA).

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Recensione

...on the whole, this is a recalcitrant, disruptive and wonderful book that will act as a temporary sanctuary and intelligent companion for insurgent researchers working against prevailing orthodoxies in education and beyond. --International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 35:2, 217-219

With an impressive list of international contributors, this volume, without question, is the best in the series to date. In a compelling and diverse arrangement of substantive themes, each chapter deals more or less convincingly with issues of vulnerability and marginality at the interstices of power and knowledge. An ongoing theme is a resistance to certainty and a deliberative move to confront power so as to oppose dominant ideologies and social injustice more actively. Indeed, a strength of the book is that each chapter moves beyond the resting point of ideological critique to offer a sense of a way forward (or move towards democratic freedom ), in terms of challenging dominant orthodoxy, or otherwise hegemonic forms of cultural imperialism. The blend of philosophy, diversity and serious provocation work well in producing an erudite text that makes the reader pause, ponder and produce questions that give rise to deeper reflection and existential thought. --British Educational Research Journal, Volume 34, Issue 5

L'autore

The contributors are Norman Denzin (USA), Kathryn Ecclestone (UK), Susan Heald (Canada), Bob Lingard (UK), Ken Montgomery (Canada), Fazal Rizvi (USA), James Rolling (USA), David Selby (UK), Pat Sikes and Heather Piper (UK), Paul Warmington (UK), Michael Watts (UK).

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Trentham Books Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1858564328
• ISBN 13: 9781858564326
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 164
• Redattore: Satterthwaite Jerome, Watts Michael, Piper Heather
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile