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July 3, 2025
Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology
- Author
- Trifonas, Peter P., ed.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY
- ISBN
- 1403963274
- Table of Contents
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Communities of difference : a preface to a knowledge of ourselves as another
ch. 1 The war against children and the shredding of the social contract (Henry A. Giroux)
ch. 2 Tackling difference in the conservative heartland of Canada (Darren E. Lund)
ch. 3 Our political state in an age of globalization (John Willinsky)
ch. 4 Culture, postmodernity, and education (Blaine R. Després)
ch. 5 Critical pedagogy in the age of neoliberal globalization (Peter McLaren)
ch. 6 The letter of the law/the silence of letters : poetic ruminations on love and school (Carl Leggo)
ch. 7 A metanarrative of emancipation (Trevor Norris)
ch. 8 Freirean literacy : difference that makes a difference (Carlo Ricci)
ch. 9 Crossing the postmodern conditions that divide : theorizing difference and the cultural politics of emancipation in critical pedagogy (Peter Pericles Trifonas and Effie Balomenos)
ch. 10 The technology of difference : ASCII, hegemony, and the Internet (Jason Nolan)
ch. 11 The phoneur : mobile commerce and the digital pedagogies of the wireless Web (Robert Luke)
ch. 12 Difference and the Internet : when ethnic community goes on-line (Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan and Vera Nincic)
ch. 13 Learning the real, theorizing the virtual I : toward a postmodern techno-epistemology (Peter Pericles Trifonas and Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.)
Communities of Difference looks at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas and contributors argue that a "community" is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know. (From the Publisher)