Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Written by leading scholars and activists from Canada, Germany, Malta, Norway, Turkey and the USA, this book offers international perspectives on critical pedagogy during the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines the social and political impact of the pandemic on education, and explores how the creation of digital communities has become indispensable in maintaining connectivity and building networks.

Including contributions from Michael W. Apple, Antonia Darder, Henry A. Giroux, Peter Mayo, Peter McLaren, Wayne Ross and Ira Shor, this volume examines critical issues, controversies of education, and social and political problems that have been exacerbated by the pandemic. The chapters call for constructive critical consciousness and a commitment to social justice, addressing current issues, including Black Lives Matter, racism, poverty, social and gender inequality, women's rights and teachers' isolation during the pandemic. In part I, the authors address these issues through the lenses of neoliberalism, neo-conservatism, rightist ideology and capitalism. Parts II and III of the volume offer inclusive perspectives, personal accounts and regional outlooks on these issues, and assess their influence on society and education during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Auteur

Fatma Mizikaci is Head of the Curriculum and Instruction Division and English Language Teaching Department in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey.

Eda Ata is a PhD student at Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Programme in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey and an EAP Lecturer.

Contenu

List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Constructing Communities of Critical Pedagogy in the Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Fatma Mizikaci (Ankara University, Turkey)

Part I: New Cultural and Social Agendas of Totalitarian Regimes and Their Influence on Education in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic

1. An Interview with Henry Giroux: Cultural Studies and Pandemic Pedagogy, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada)
2. Radical and Hopeful Discussions about Times of Brutal Conservatism: Paths of Fight and Transformation in the Light of Paulo Freire, Peter McLaren (Chapman University, USA)
3. Critical Analysis and Discussion of the Covid-19 Crisis, Michael W. Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)
4. Higher Education in the Time of Corona, Peter Mayo (University of Malta, Malta)
5. Freire and a Revolutionary Praxis of the Body: Countering the One-Dimensionality of Banking Education, Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA)
6. A Crisis within a Crisis: Teaching, Learning, and Democracy under Neoliberalism during the Pandemic, Wayne Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada)
7. Paulo Freire at 100, Still Inspiring: An Interview with Ira Shor, Ira Shor (College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA)
   Part II: From Geographical Pedagogies to Universal Moments: United States, Mexico, Turkey, Germany, Norway in the Pandemic
8. Race, Plague and Resistance, Guy Senese (Northern Arizona University, USA)
9. A Pedagogy of Questioning: Vocational Learning: The Art of Reflective Curiosity, Liv Mjelde (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
10. Between Bildung and Erziehung: Mass Education during the Pandemic, Arnd-Michael Nohl (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität and Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany)
11. The Agenda of Critical Pedagogy during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Turkey, Fevziye Sayilan (Ankara University, Turkey) and Zeynep Alica (Ankara University, Turkey)
    Part III: Critical Reflections and Mobilization: Constructing Digital Communities
12. Transformative Power of Digital Communities: A Critical Educator's Perspective, Eda Ata (Ankara University, Turkey)
13. Grounding Critical Educators' Lives on Solidarity, Community and Friendship, Zeynep Alica (Ankara University, Turkey) and Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)
14. Coming to Terms with the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of a Language Teacher, Murat Ata (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey)
15. Rethinking Social Transformation from Informal Learning to Political Learning in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ali Tansu Balci (Ankara University, Turkey)
16. Critical Pedagogy Confronts Technology: Responses to the Challenges of the New Education Reality during the Pandemic, Kemal Inal (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)
    
    17. Cultural Resistance of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Authoritarian Populism, Gamze Gonca Özyurt (Ankara University, Turkey)
17. Rediscovering Teacher Voice in Higher Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nurcan Saltoglu Özleyen (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)
    References
    Index