On Critical Pedagogy

"This classic work represents [the author's] best writing on critical pedagogy spanning the past 40 years. The 2nd edition includes four new chapters covering the rise of fascist culture in America and across the globe and the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Trump and post-truth. This ... work opens by discussing critical pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of culture, politics, and society. [The author] analyses the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching, focusing on the culture of positivism and examines some of the major economic, social, and political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public and higher education"--