Critical traditions, modernisms, and the "posts" ; Social epistemology of educational research / Thomas S. Popkewitz --
Critical thinking and critical pedagogy : relations, differences, and limits / Nicholas C. Burbules and Rupert Berk --
Emergent identity versus consistent identity : possibilities for a postmodern repoliticization of critical pedagogy / Siebren Miedema and Willem L. Wardekker --
Critical theory and political sociology of education : arguments / Carlos Alberto Torres --
Philosophy of education, Frankfurt critical theory, and the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu / Staf Callewaert --
Mode of information and education : insights on critical theory from Michel Foucault / James D. Marshall --
Making trouble : prediction, agency, and critical intellectuals / Lynn Fendler --
(Dis)locating thoughts : where do the birds go after the last sky? / Pradeep A. Dhillon --
Reconstructing Dewey's critical philosophy : toward a literary pragmatist criticism / Lynda Stone --
Critical education and the liberal arts / Jo Anne Pagano.

This book examines critical theories in education research from various points of view in order to critique the relations of power and knowledge in education and schooling practices. It addresses social injustices in the field of education, while at the same time questioning traditional standards of critical theory. Drawing on recent social and literary criticism, this collection identifies conversations across disciplines that address the theoretical and methodological challenges in educational debate. Critical Theories in Education offers a rethinking of Marxist theories of education, joining issues of teaching and pedagogy with issues of the state and economy, social movements, literary criticism, pragmatism and postcolonialism. --From publisher's description