Overview

This collection of essays, poems, and reflections by scholars, public intellectuals, artists, and community activists (as well as those whose work intersects with all of these categories) constitutes a landmark achievement in critical pedagogy and social justice education. Edited by two leaders whose work spans both academic and grassroots communities, Radical Imagine-Nation was conceived during a time of political turmoil both nationally and internationally, a time when freedom and democracy seemed out of reach for millions around the world.

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Author:   Peter McLaren ,  Suzanne SooHoo
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Volume:   13
Weight:   0.553kg
ISBN:  

9781433143755

ISBN 10:   1433143755
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   30 April 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments – Suzanne SooHoo: Introduction – Donaldo Macedo: Conscientization as an Antidote to Banking Education – Tom Wilson: Coming to Know Paulo – Tricia M. Kress: Critical Pedagogy, Leadership and Institutional Reform: Paulo Freire’s “Formative Time” at the Social Services of Industry – Keqi (David) Liu: A Clarification of Freire’s Radical Political Pedagogy – Leona M. English/Peter Mayo: Migration, Racism, and the Mediterranean—A Freirean Perspective – Robert Lake: Utopia as Praxis: Paulo Freire Twenty Years After His Passing – Peter McLaren: Dare We Create a New Socialist Order? A Challenge to Educators of America in the Coming Trump Era – Henry A. Giroux: Toward a Politics of Revolt and Disruption: Higher Education in Dangerous Times – Antonia Darder: Critical Leadership for Social Justice: Unveiling the Dirty Little Secret of Power and Privilege – Peter Hudis: The Alternative to Capitalism in Light of Today’s Environmental Crises – Michael E. Dantley: Critical Consciousness and Spirituality: Deconstructing the Colonizing Practices of U.S. Education Through the Lens of Paulo Freire and Critical Spirituality – Margaret Randall: I Cannot Speak for the Gun – Michael A. Peters/Tina Besley: The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Words Without Borders – Petar Jandrić: The Challenge of the Internationalist Critical Pedagogue – George J. Sefa Dei: Reframing Education Through Indigenous, Anti-Colonial, and Decolonial Prisms – Ravi Kumar: Educational Project of Social Justice: The Possibilities of Intervention Against the Pedagogical Hegemony of Capitalism – Peter O’Connor/Jean M. Allen/Simon Dennan: Where I’m Bound I Can’t Tell: Radical Changes Are Still Possible in Higher Education – Anna Renfors/Juha Suoranta: “Miracle on Ice”: Sociological Understanding of the Finnish Schooling Model – Bettina L. Love: “Trayvon Was Standing His Ground”: Utilizing Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy to Construct Counter-Narratives of Resistance and Love – Miguel Zavala: Toward a Raza Research Methodology: Social Science in the Service of Raza Communities – Theresa Montano/Maria Elena Cruz: L@s Malcriad@s: A Union Based, Chican@ Studies Model Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers of Chican@ Studies – Contributors – Index.

Reviews

In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers, Educational Activist and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (Retired) This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy

In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers, Educational Activist and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (Retired) Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio

In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers, Educational Activist and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (Retired) This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay

In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy

This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers, Educational Activist and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (Retired) In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay

In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers, Educational Activist and Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (Retired) A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy

In this edited book, the authors will provide a vocabulary of critique and deconstruction to formulate a vernacular of reconstruction and hope to weave a social tapestry of a radical imagination for personal liberation and social emancipation. -Long Tran, Goshen College A fantastic collection of articles written by prominent radical intellectuals...a must read for any scholar and education activist worldwide...a wide range of topics covering the most important aspects of critical theory and radical pedagogy...a guide for thinking and theory production for global emancipation. -Kostas Skordoulis, Professor of Epistemology of Science and Head of the Department of Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece The pages in this outstanding volume are bursting with power, inspiration, and hope. What a wonderful collection of essays by first-rate thinkers and writers. -Christine Sleeter This engaging collection is a vital source of political inspiration for contemporary educators, students and activists and a reminder that radical pedagogical praxis (to paraphrase Freire) does not and cannot limit itself to mere verbal denunciations of social and economic injustice while leaving unchallenged the very structure of capitalism itself. -Valerie Scatamburlo-D'Annibale, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada In these dark and dangerous times, this dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed. History has surprised us before, and it will surely surprise us again-the hard work ahead is mobilizing ourselves to become the surprise that moves humanity forward. This book ignites that possibility. -Bill Ayers This excellent book comes at a time it is most needed. Edited by two of the world's best revolutionary intellectuals and including many of the most renown radical scholars in education, it brings hope at an age of dark times. A must read! -Maria Nikolakaki, University of Peloponnese; Founding Member of Cooperative Institute for Transnational Studies During education's 40-year descent into hell, there has been one clear and consistent countervailing force. With its origin in the work of Paulo Freire, critical pedagogy has provided a singular light for hope. Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's collection of essays in Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis brings together some of the longtime and most influential voices in critical education theory with some of the most promising new voices to create a revitalized critical pedagogy to meet the latest and most serious threat yet to public education and democracy. In these darkest of dark times, this collection provides a needed direction for resistance and renews our faith in the possibility of education to transform our selves and our world. -Richard Quantz, Miami University of Ohio Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo's Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is the exact right book at the exact right time. They have assembled a stellar collective of critical scholars assembled around their `shared refusal to accept the world, with all its pain and ugliness, as it is.' Together, they take seriously their responsibility to put forward their imaginings for a different future. A soon to be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists, students and public intellectuals alike. -Sandy Grande, Connecticut College; Author of Red Pedagogy Radical Imagine-Nation is an essential read for critical scholars, graduate students and others who are committed to building the world free from hate, injustice, and oppression. The volume showcases the intellectual work of leading progressive scholars across the globe whose contributions collectively capture what steps are necessary to remake schools and our social world. -Brad J. Porfilio, Director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership for Social Justice (ELSJ), CSU East Bay Featuring a dazzling array of world-renowned critical scholars and public intellectuals, Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis is (sadly) precisely the book we urgently need in these dark days of struggle. -Marc Spooner, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Regina Radical Imagine-Nation includes a truly stellar, globally renowned, co-operative cast of critical educators and community activists. This is indeed, an incredible, radical, vibrant roar of imaginative hope and commitment. It is a thunderous counterblast to contemporary dystopia and mean-minded right and far right violence. It effectively sabotages contemporary nihilist, dystopian, and cruel developments in neoliberal and Alt.Right capitalism. This cast of Critical Warriors rehydrates democracy, propounds radical equality and cooperation, and imagines a future of hope, justice and critical activism. -Dave Hill, Universities of Middlesex, Athens and Anglia Ruskin The disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of democracy as well as traditional discourses of equality, justice, rights in North America is a direct challenge to our work as critical educators. We can no longer rely on the old tropes of democracy and freedom that have dominated the curriculum and classroom discourse, indeed to do so is to sell students a lie about history and contemporary life. Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis provides us with the new imaginaries we need for thinking about and enacting an education in the public interest. This collection challenges us to rethink our work in response to the rising tide of authoritarianism and gives us a language of possibilities to radically re-imagine education and society. -E. Wayne Ross, University of British Columbia

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Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo are both professors in the College of Educational Studies, Chapman University and are Co-Directors of the Paulo Freire Democratic Project at Chapman. They serve as Honorary Co-Directors of the Center for Critical Studies in Education, Northeast Normal University, China.

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