Pedagogies of Difference : Rethinking Education for Social Justice

peter Pericles Trifonas Has Assembled Internationally Acclaimed Theorists And Educational Practitioners Whose Essays Explore Various Constructions, Representations, And Uses Of Difference In Educational Contexts. These Essays Strive To Bridge Competing Discourses Of Difference—for Instance, Feminist Or Anti-racist Pedagogical Models—to Create A More Inclusive Education That Adheres To Principles Of Equity And Social Justice. Education, Politics & IR, Sociology & Social Policy Book Cover 1 Half-Title 2 Title 3 Copyright 4 Dedication 5 Contents 6 Acknowledgments 8 Introduction 10 REFERENCES 16 1 Toward a Decolonizing Pedagogy: Social Justice Reconsidered 18 WHY SOCIAL JUSTICE FROM A DECOLONIZING PERSPECTIVE? 20 FUNDAMENTAL PREMISES OF A DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY 21 TOWARD THE DEFINITION OF A DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY 27 THE CONCEPTUAL ORIENTATIONS OF A DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY 28 POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES 28 SPATIAL THEORY 33 CRITICAL RACE THEORY 36 CRITICAL PEDAGOGY 37 THE CURRICULAR CONTENTS OF A DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGICAL PRAXIS AND ITS CULTURAL-HISTORICAL CONCEPTION OF LEARNING AND COGNITION 38 THE CURRICULAR CONTENT OF A DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGY 39 DECOLONIZING PEDAGOGICAL PRAXIS AND THE CULTURAL-HISTORICAL CONCEPTION OF LEARNING AND COGNITION 40 CONCLUSION 42 REFERENCES 42 2 Challenging the Construction of Difference as Deficit: Where Are Identity, Intellect, Imagination, and Power in the New Regime of Truth? 48 EVOLUTION OF THE BILINGUAL EDUCATION DEBATE 50 PHASE I. 1967–1974 50 PHASE II. 1974–1986 50 PHASE III. 1987–1998 52 PHASE IV. 1998–2002 54 THE APPLIED LINGUISTICS RESEARCH CONSENSUS 55 NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY IN THE CONTEXT OF SOCIETAL POWER RELATIONS 57 ALTERNATIVE DIRECTIONS FOR EDUCATIONAL CHANGE 59 CONSTRUCTIONS AND CONSTRICTIONS OF IDENTITY IN POLICY AND CLASSROOM INTERACTIONS 61 REFERENCES 64 3 Derrida, Pedagogy, and the Calculation of the Subject 68 INTRODUCTION 68 DERRIDA, HUMANISM, AND DECONSTRUCTION 69 FRENCH ANTI-NIETZSCHEANISM 71 DERRIDA’S RESPONSE: THE CALCULATION OF THE SUBJECT 77 NOTES 83 REFERENCES 87 4 Pedagogies of Difference, Race, and Representation: Film as a Site of Translation and Politics 90 THE POLITICS OF ACADEMIC MULTICULTURALISM 90 BEYOND THE TEXTUALIZATION OF POLITICS 92 LINKING CULTURE AND POWER 94 RACIAL CODING IN THE HOLLYWOOD TEXT 98 FILM AS PUBLIC PEDAGOGY 101 AGENCY AND MASCULINITY AS THE POLITICS OF PATHOLOGY 105 CONCLUSION 107 NOTES 110 5 Discomforting Truths: The Emotional Terrain of Understanding Difference 116 CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF LIBERAL INDIVIDUALISM 118 THE CELEBRATION/TOLERANCE MODEL 118 THE DENIAL/SAMENESS MODEL 119 THE NATURAL RESPONSE/BIOLOGICAL MODEL 119 THE THANKLESS TASK 120 NO ONE ESCAPES HEGEMONY: WE ARE ALL DISCOMFORTED 120 DIFFERENCE AND THE PROCESS OF HEGEMONY 123 DIFFERENCE AS PRODUCED THROUGH SILENCE AND ABSENCE 125 THE POWER OF BINARIES 126 RELATIONS OF SELF AND OTHER 127 EMBRACING “AMBIGUITY” IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES 129 DIFFERENCE AND PEDAGOGY OF DISCOMFORT: THE CHALLENGE OF “CRITICAL THINKING” 135 CONCLUSION: DIFFERENCE AS CREATIVITY 137 NOTES 138 REFERENCES 138 6 The Struggle for Happiness: Commodified Black Masculinities, Vernacular Culture, and Homoerotic Desires 140 NOTES 154 7 Inside Noah’s Tent: The Sodomitical Genesis of Race in the Christian Imagination 156 CROSS-ADDRESSING “RACE” 159 INSIDE NOAH’S TENT 163 WHAT DID HAM DO? 174 NOTES 181 8 Queer Pedagogies: Camping Up the Difference 188 BECOMING QUEER IN A (POST) HISTORICAL HER-STORY 189 NON (IDENTITY): QUEERING UP THE (UN)SELF 193 QUEER PERFORMANCE: CAMPING UP THE VAMPIRE 196 CAMPING: A QUEERY 197 REFERENCES 202 9 Toward an Integrative Approach to Equity in Education 206 INTRODUCTION 206 POWER AS RELATION 207 RACE, GENDER, ABILITY, AND CLASS ARE RELATIONAL 208 AGAINST THE GRAIN: TOWARD AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH IN EDUCATION 213 NOTES 216 REFERENCES 217 10 Toward a Deconstructive Pedagogy of Différance 220 A PEDAGOGY OF THE VOICE: LOOKING BEYOND CRITICAL THINKING 221 REWRITING THE SELF: TOWARD A DECONSTRUCTIVE PEDAGOGY OF DIFFERANCE 224 FOR LOOSE ENDS: AT THE PROXIMITY OF A TEACHING OF THE OTHER 232 NOTES 233 Contributors 236 Index 240 The idea of difference has provided the conceptual groundwork for educational theorists of diverse ideological perspectives working toward the ethical purpose of actualizing equitable curricular contexts for teaching and learning that are responsive to individuals and groups within a society or culture regardless of race, class, gender, or sexuality (Apple 1990; Giroux 1992; Lather 1991; Pinar et al.1995; Spivak 1993; hooks 1994; McLaren 1997). In the contemporary contexts of what many refer to as the United States, working-class indigenous and nonwhite peoples are often reduced to ontological foreigners in the very space and time they occupy. Edited By Peter Pericles Trifonas. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.