The essays in this volume explore the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. These shifts include the fragmentation of established power blocs, the emergence of a politics of identity, growing inequalities between the haves and the have-nots in a new global economy, and the rise in influ
Power/Knowledge/Pedagogy explores the educational implications of unsettling shifts in contemporary culture associated with postmodernism. It aims to help articulate a range of "critical" theories of what is, and to assist in recapturing a democratic and progressive vision of what could be.