Radical Imagine-Nation: Public Pedagogy & Praxis

342 Pages·2018·5.86 MB·English

by  Peter McLaren (editor), Suzanne SooHoo (editor)

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“…This dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective
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“…This dazzling collection reminds us that our most formidable collective
advantage is our radical imaginations unleashed.” Bill Ayers
R “…A soon-to-be classic as well as required reading for scholars, activists,
“When democracy is dehydrated and there is a drought of hope and inspiration
a
students and public intellectuals alike.” Sandy Grande
or when there is crippling thirst for what is possible, we seek streams of
d
consciousness that fill our spirits so that we become the rivers that are able “…Bursting with power, inspiration, and hope…” Christine Sleeter
i
over time to carve new social and political pathways of possibility. As clear
c
waters muddy from lack of nourishment, small springs of untested feasibility
a
sprout and struggle to crawl across the land ultimately to the ocean. The ocean
l
represents restoration from drought. It is the life force that in turn hydrates the

skies, crystalizes the mountains and replenishes the rivers. This assurance that I
m
democracy does not die but recovers and recycles itself is fed by the hope and
struggle of its people.” Suzanne SooHoo, from the Introduction a
g
i
This collection of essays, poems, and reflections by scholars, public intellectu-
n
als, artists, and community activists (as well as those whose work intersects
e
with all of these categories) constitutes a landmark achievement in critical
-
pedagogy and social justice education. Edited by two leaders whose work N
spans both academic and grassroots communities, Radical Imagine-Nation a
was conceived during a time of political turmoil both nationally and interna-
t
tionally, a time when freedom and democracy seemed out of reach for mil-
i
lions around the world. o
n

M
Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo are both C
L
professors in the College of Educational Studies, A
R
E
Chapman University and are Co-Directors of the N

Paulo Freire Democratic Project at Chapman. &

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They serve as Honorary Co-Directors of the Cen- O
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ter for Critical Studies in Education, Northeast H
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Normal University, China. O
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Advance Praise for
Radical Imagine-Nation

“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)

“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

“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

“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, Professor Emerita, School of Professional Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay
“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

“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

“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

“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 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
Radical
Imagine-Nation
Narrative, Dialogue,
and the Political
Production of Meaning
Michael Peters & Peter McLaren
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McLaren, Peter, editor. | SooHoo, Suzanne, editor.
Title: Radical imagine-nation: public pedagogy & praxis /
edited by Peter McLaren and Suzanne SooHoo.
Description: New York: Peter Lang, 2018.
Series: Education and struggle; vol. 13
ISSN 2168-6432 (print) | ISSN 2168-6459 (online)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017015155 | ISBN 978-1-4331-4375-5 (hardback: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4379-3 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 978-1-4331-4376-2 (ebook pdf)
ISBN 978-1-4331-4377-9 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-4331-4378-6 (mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Freire, Paulo, 1921–1997.
Popular education.
Education—Philosophy.
Critical pedagogy.
Classification: LCC LC196 .R329 2018 | DDC 370.11/5
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017015155
DOI 10.3726/b11176

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Table Contents
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Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Suzanne SooHoo
Part One: Reinventing Freire � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 7
Chapter One: Conscientization as an Antidote to Banking Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Donaldo Macedo
Chapter Two: Coming to Know Paulo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Tom Wilson
Chapter Three: Critical Pedagogy, Leadership and Institutional Reform:
Paulo Freire’s “Formative Time” at the Social Services of Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Tricia M . Kress
Chapter Four: A Clarification of Freire’s Radical Political Pedagogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Keqi (David) Liu
Chapter Five: Migration, Racism, and the Mediterranean—
A Freirean Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Leona M . English and Peter Mayo
Chapter Six: Utopia as Praxis: Paulo Freire Twenty Years After His Passing . . . . . . . . 69
Robert Lake
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Part Two: Engaging Public Intellectuals � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � 83
Chapter Seven: Dare We Create a New Socialist Order? A Challenge to
Educators of America in the Coming Trump Era . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Peter McLaren
Chapter Eight: Toward a Politics of Revolt and Disruption: Higher Education
in Dangerous Times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Henry A . Giroux
Chapter Nine: Critical Leadership for Social Justice: Unveiling the Dirty
Little Secret of Power and Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Antonia Darder
Chapter Ten: The Alternative to Capitalism in Light of Today’s
Environmental Crises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165
Peter Hudis
Chapter Eleven: Critical Consciousness and Spirituality: Deconstructing the
Colonizing Practices of U .S . Education Through the Lens of
Paulo Freire and Critical Spirituality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Michael E . Dantley
Chapter Twelve: I Cannot Speak for the Gun . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Margaret Randall
Part Three: Linking Internationalists � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �189
Chapter Thirteen: The Refugee Crisis in Europe: Words Without Borders . . . . . . . . 191
Michael A . Peters and Tina Besley
Chapter Fourteen: The Challenge of the Internationalist Critical Pedagogue . . . 199
Petar Jandrić
Chapter Fifteen: Reframing Education Through Indigenous, Anti-Colonial,
and Decolonial Prisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
George J . Sefa Dei
Chapter Sixteen: Educational Project of Social Justice: The Possibilities of
Intervention Against the Pedagogical Hegemony of Capitalism . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Ravi Kumar
Chapter Seventeen: Where I’m Bound I Can’t Tell: Radical Changes
Are Still Possible in Higher Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Peter O’Connor, Jean M . Allen, and Simon Dennan
Chapter Eighteen: “Miracle on Ice”: Sociological Understanding
of the Finnish Schooling Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .257
Anna Renfors and Juha Suoranta