Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- A Pedagogy of Transformation: An Introduction -- About the Contributors -- CHAPTER 1 Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of Possibility -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH -- FREIRE'S PHILOSOPHY OF PEDAGOGY: A PREFERENTIAL OPTION FOR THE POOR -- FREIRE'S INFLUENCE ON NORTH AMERICAN CRITICAL PEDAGOGY -- FREIREAN PEDAGOGY: ITS SHORTCOMINGS -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 2 Studying the Media -- CHAPTER 3 Scientism as a Form of Racism -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 4 Liberating the Critical in Critical Theory -- COMPETING THEORIES OF ALIENATION-RIVAL PHILOSOPHIES OF ART -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 5 Multiculturalism1 and the Politics of Nationalism in the Global Age -- INTRODUCTION -- MYTHIC NATIONAL IDENTITY -- MEDIA CULTURE AND THE POPULIST CONSTRUCTION OF NATIONALIST IDENTITY -- RICHARD RORTY, LIBERALISM, AND THE PROBLEM OF NATIONAL IDENTITY -- PEDAGOGY, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND THE POLITICS OF DIFFERENCE -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 6 On "Having Differences" and "Being Different" -- 1. EGOCENTRISM, ETHNOCENTRISM, AND SEPARACENTRISM -- 2. THE FORMATION OF DIFFERENCE -- 3. DIVIDE AND CONQUER: SEPARACENTRISM AND INDIFFERENCE -- 4. CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 7 Politics of Explanation -- POWER AND KNOWLEDGE -- Power -- Knowledge -- RESEARCH: WHERE KNOWLEDGE MEETS POWER -- Exclusion -- Inclusion -- EXPLAINING EXPERIENCE IN THE FACE OF POWER -- Research on Research -- Occupying Open Spaces -- Participatory Research -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 8 Upstream in the Mainstream -- INTRODUCTION -- AN EVOLVING SENSE OF CULTURE CIRCLES -- RESISTANCE, NONENGAGEMENT, AND ENGAGEMENT -- DISCOVERING THE WATER IN WHICH WE SWIM -- COMING TO KNOW WHO WE ARE -- TAKING THEORY INTO ACTION -- BUILDING A COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS -- PROMOTING A DISPOSITION TOWARD LIFELONG LEARNING -- EXTENDING THE PEDAGOGICAL SHIFT.

FIGHTING THE RAPIDS OF TRADITION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 9 The Prairie Is Wide -- DOING "SOMETHING" -- DECONSTRUCTING CONRACK -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- CHAPTER 10 Teaching in Our Underwear -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 11 Authority Is Not a Luxury -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 12 Authentic Multiculturalism and Nontraditional Students -- REFERENCES -- WORKS CONSULTED -- CHAPTER 13 The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action -- PART ONE: THE PROBLEM IN ITS CATERPILLAR STAGE -- Background to the Study -- Methods -- Context of the Study -- PART TWO: SPINNING OUR COCOON -- PART THREE: WOOING ALICIA, GROWING THE WINGS -- PART FOUR: THE PRACTICE WON'T FLY -- How Do Peer-Response Sessions Disrupt Traditional Learning Roles? -- Who Do Peer-Response Sessions Serve? -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 14 Cultural Studies (Alone) Won't Do It -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CHAPTER 15 Synthesizing Gramsci and Freire -- INTRODUCTION -- ANTONIO GRAMSCI -- PAULO FREIRE -- GRAMSCI AND FREIRE: COMBINED INSIGHTS FOR A THEORY OF RADICAL ADULT EDUCATION -- Commitment -- Agency -- Social Movement -- Adult Educators -- Culture -- CONCLUSION: ANY LIMITATIONS IN GRAMSCI AND FREIRE FOR FORMULATING A COMPREHENSIVE RADICAL ADULT EDUCATION THEORY? -- REFERENCES -- Index.