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Communities of Difference

Culture, Language, Technology

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Peter Pericles Trifonas

    1. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Culture, Difference, Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The War Against Children and the Shredding of the Social Contract

      • Henry A. Giroux
      Pages 3-26

    3. Tackling Difference in the Conservative Heartland of Canada

      • Darren E. Lund
      Pages 27-35

    4. Our Political State in an Age of Globalization

      • John Willinsky
      Pages 37-51

    5. Culture, Postmodernity, and Education: oil_H2O@no.com

      • Blane R. Després
      Pages 53-67

    6. Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Neoliberal Globalization

      • Peter McLaren
      Pages 69-103

  4. Technology, Difference, Community

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. The Technology of Difference: ASCII, Hegemony, and the Internet

      • Jason Nolan
      Pages 167-183

    3. The Phoneur: Mobile Commerce and the Digital Pedagogies of the Wireless Web

      • Robert Luke
      Pages 185-204

    4. Difference and the Internet: When Ethnic Community Goes On-line

      • Joel Weiss, Vera Nincic, Jason Nolan
      Pages 205-213

    5. Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual I: Toward a Postmodern Techno-Epistemology

      • Peter Pericles Trifonas, Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.
      Pages 215-228

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 229-231
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About this book

This book will look at the implications of educational practices in communities that are differentiated by issues of language, culture, and technology. Trifonas argues that a 'community' is at once a gathering of like-minded individuals in solidarity of purpose and conviction, and also a gathering that excludes others. The chapters in this collection will reveal this tension between theory and practice in order to engage the models of community and the theories of difference that support them as a way to teach, to learn, and to know.

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'This is a collected book that explores and heart and soul of one of the foremost dilemmas of Western culture - the tension between community and individualism - and in doing so, offers a compelling critique of the challenges of communities of difference facing neo-liberal globalizations. A timely book for unsettling times.' - Carlos Alberto Torres, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada

    Peter Pericles Trifonas

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PETER TRIFONAS is Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Revolutionary Pedagogies, Pedagogies of Difference, and Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (edited with Jacques Derrida).

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