This book explores the theoretical framework for conceptualizing and implementing the author's version of critical pedagogy. It presents a number of contemporary traditions and issues, including modernism, postmodernism, and feminism, and discusses the matter of cultural difference in the classroom.

Part 1 Theoretical Foundations for Critical Pedagogy -- Schooling and the Culture of Positivism: Notes on the Death of History -- Culture and Rationality in Frankfurt School Thought: Ideological Foundations for a Theory of Social Education -- Ideology and Agency in the Process of Schooling -- Authority, Intellectuals, and the Politics of Practical Learning -- Part 2 Critical Pedagogy in the Classroom -- Radical Pedagogy and the Politics of Student Voice -- Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism -- Disturbing the Peace: Writing in the Cultural Studies Classroom -- Part 3 Contemporary Concerns -- Rethinking the Boundaries of Educational Discourse: Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism -- Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Promise of Pedagogy -- Public Intellectuals and the Culture of Reaganism in the 1990s