Critical Education, Critical Theory, and the Critical Scholar/Activist

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (7) ◽  
pp. 1171-1179
Author(s):  
Michael W. Apple
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Critical Education ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Basil Bernstein ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Critical Policy

In education, the areas of critical policy studies, critical cultural studies, and critical curriculum studies all owe a good deal to a number of people. Among them are Paulo Freire, Raymond Williams, Pierre Bourdieu, Basil Bernstein, and Antonio Gramsci. Yet no such listing would be complete without the inclusion of Stuart Hall. The two books I discuss in this essay provide us with important parts of the reasons many people continue to find in his work—and his life—the kinds of analyses and commitments that point their own work in more substantive, nuanced, and satisfying directions. In many ways, his writings and his life provide a model for what I have called the critical scholar/activist in education.

scholarly journals Stuart Hall and Cultural Studies, circa 1983

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 162-173
Author(s):  
Ann Curthoys ◽  
John Docker
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Traumatic Memory ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Louis Althusser ◽  
Memory Recovery ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Stuart Hall sought to internationalise theoretical debates and to create Cultural Studies as interdisciplinary. We chart his theoretical journey through a detailed examination of a series of lectures delivered in 1983 and now published for the first time. In these lectures, he discusses theorists such as E.P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Louis Althusser, Levi Strauss and Antonio Gramsci, and explores the relationship between ideas and social structure, the specificities of class and race, and the legacies of slavery. We note his turn towards metaphors of divergence and dispersal and highlight how autobiographical and deeply personal Hall is in these lectures, especially in his ego histoire moment of traumatic memory recovery.

scholarly journals Thinking about generations, conjuncturally: A toolkit

2021 ◽  
pp. 003802612110623
Author(s):  
João Pina-Cabral ◽  
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Karl Mannheim ◽  
Jose Ortega Y Gasset ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
Ethical Stance ◽  
Fine Tune

Since the early twentieth century, generation has been a recurrent concept in social analysis. In spite of successive bouts of critique and periods of relative neglect, the category has never been abandoned. In this article, drawing inspiration from a broad range of thinkers – such as José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall – we review and fine tune our conceptual toolkit regarding generations, making more explicitly visible its affordances for social analysis in times of crisis. We focus on the problem of intergenerational overlap of contemporaneity and the contradictions that emerge from it. We argue that the notion of coevalness can help us resolve some of these contradictions – for example, the lag between contemporaneity and generational awareness – and introduce, through its horizontal connotations, a decolonising ethical stance. Favouring a processual understanding of generation, we recommend ‘conjunctural analysis’ as the most flexible analytical framework for resolving the intersectional contradictions and overlaps of generational categorisation.

O ensino jurídico em Portugal: Um estudo de caso sobre a Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
Córa Hisae Hagino
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Basil Bernstein

O tema deste artigo é o ensino jurídico na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, o que engloba o direito, a educação e a prática pedagógica. Na primeira parte do artigo, utilizo como referencial teórico os trabalhos de Pierre Bourdieu e Basil Bernstein. Apresento, ainda, alguns resultados preliminares oriundos da análise curricular e da observação participante. O objetivo central é realizar uma análise do ensino na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra, com ênfase nos currículos e práticas pedagógicas, a fim de compreender a lógica de reprodução dos discursos jurídico e pedagógicos da Escola de Direito de Coimbra.

Critical Theory, Curricular Transformation and Feminist Mainstreaming

1984 ◽  
Vol 166 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti Lather
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Curricular Change ◽  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Curricular Transformation ◽  
Change Efforts

This paper examines critical theory, especially the work of Antonio Gramsci, in relation to feminist curricular change efforts in teacher education. It is contended that women's studies is potentially a prime example of curriculum as counter-hegemonic force. Critical theory is taken to task for the male-centeredness of its search for historical actors. The possibilities for fundamental social change that open up when we put women at the center of our transformative aspirations are explored.

scholarly journals Emotions, Planning and Co-production: Distrust, Anger and Fear at Participatory Boundaries in Bengaluru

Urbanisation ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-157
Author(s):  
Jayaraj Sundaresan ◽  
Benjamin John
Keyword(s):  
Connective Tissue ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Emotional Geographies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Policy

Emotions relationally and performatively constitute the very boundaries that distinguish the subject from the other(s). The urban human in India is affectively constituted by many intense emotional experiences of everyday life. Adopting a participation view of planning and drawing from Sarah Ahmed (2014, The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh University Press), we examine ‘what emotions do’ in the planning and participatory atmospheres (Buser, 2014, Planning Theory, vol. 13, pp. 227–243) in Bangalore. Tracing emotional content embedded in participations and non-participations, we demonstrate how distrust, anger and fear co-produced the process and outcomes of the 2031 Master Plan of Bangalore. We join the few emerging scholars that call attention to the emotional geographies of planning, particularly to be able to transform the continuing colonial urban management practice in the postcolonial world to that of planning. Planning, we argue, has to involve participation, in which emotions, we demonstrate, are the connective tissue (Newman, 2012, Critical Policy Studies, vol. 6, pp. 465–479).

scholarly journals A perspectiva de Michael Apple para os estudos das políticas educacionais

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 651-664
Author(s):  
Luís Armando Gandin ◽  
Iana Gomes de Lima
Keyword(s):  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Raymond Williams

Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar as contribuições de Michael Apple para o campo da pesquisa em políticas educacionais. Na extensa obra de Michael Apple, destacamos seis elementos que podem auxiliar aqueles que estão interessados na área de políticas em educação: o princípio epistemológico da análise relacional; o exame do Estado como relação; a herança de Antonio Gramsci e de Raymond Williams que Michael Apple incorpora no uso de conceitos como hegemonia e senso comum; a análise que Michael Apple faz das políticas educacionais como políticas culturais, como disputas por visão de mundo, como luta por consolidação de uma hegemonia que vai além do econômico; a sua postura de pesquisador; e a capacidade que Michael Apple tem de ir além da lógica da reprodução e determinação para enfatizar o papel da agência e da contra-hegemonia. Através de exemplos práticos da própria obra de Apple e de outras pesquisas empíricas, apresentam-se as implicações de cada um dos seis pontos acima citados para os pesquisadores interessados na área de políticas educacionais. Conclui-se que muitas das contribuições de Apple podem auxiliar em pesquisas nessa área, tendo em vista a discussão que o autor realiza em sua obra e sua crítica ao determinismo econômico nas análises do campo educacional, salientando a importância, assim, de aspectos que estão relacionados à esfera da cultura.

scholarly journals The Stuart Hall Conjuncture

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Residential School ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Raymond Williams ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

I recall distinctly when and where I first heard of Stuart Hall. It was in 1973 at a residential school I had organised at the University of Bristol on Marxism and Literature with Raymond Williams and E.P Thompson as its main—indeed, only— speakers. And it was Thompson who mentioned Stuart, saying that I ought to have asked him to speak in Thompson’s place. I put this down to Thompson’s characteristic modesty, for both he and Williams had commanded their audience’s attention throughout a memorable weekend. But I logged the name and began to look up Stuart’s work

scholarly journals Critical policy studies and the politics of authoritarian neoliberalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Dieter Plehwe ◽  
Jennifer Dodge
Keyword(s):  
Policy Studies ◽  
Critical Policy
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