Cover -- HalfTitle -- Title -- Copyright -- On the Critical Attitude -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis in the Contemporary University -- Neoliberalism as a crisis of thinking -- Neoliberalism as a crisis of feeling -- Neoliberalism as a crisis of doing -- The scope and structure of this book -- PART ONE Perspectives on the Crisis in Education -- CHAPTER ONE The New Poverty of Student Life: The Politics of Debt -- Introduction -- The spirit of '68 -- The Situationist International and the 'Poverty of Student Life' -- Dysfunctional Debt -- What is Fictitious Capital? -- The new politics of student debt -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO Sat-Nav Education: A Means to an End or an End to Meaning? -- Introduction -- The expansion of Higher Education: Does more mean worse? -- Consumerist pedagogy -- The academic's experience -- The student experience -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE Criticality, Pedagogy and the Promises of Radical Democratic Education -- Introduction -- 'Critical pedagogy' as a discipline, project and way of life -- Critical reason as liberation: The classical promise of critical pedagogy -- Beyond and before critique: Critical pedagogy's silenced selves and quiet others -- Education as a practice of freedom and becoming: Pedagogy, prefiguration, politics -- CHAPTER FOUR Pedagogies of Possibility: In, against and beyond the Imperial Patriarchal Subjectivities of Higher Education -- The estrangements of patriarchal colonial capitalism -- Pedagogies of possibility in, against and beyond the epistemological logics of colonial, patriarchal capitalism -- Nottingham Critical Pedagogy Project -- On expertise and truth -- On the nature of knowledge -- Practices of learning -- Reflections for pedagogical praxis -- PART TWO Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education -- Introduction toPart Two.

CHAPTER FIVE Stephen Cowden on the Uses of Freire and Bourdieu -- CHAPTER SIX Joyce Canaan on the Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education -- On widening participation and academic literacies -- CHAPTER SEVEN Michael Williams on Indigenous Pedagogy -- CHAPTER EIGHT Jim Crowther on Popular Education and Higher Education -- CHAPTER NINE Sarah Amsler on Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory and Critical Hope -- CHAPTER TEN Steve Wright on Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular Education -- Index.