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Title: [Book Review] Towards a language of hope and possibility : teaching against the grain by Roger I. Simon
Other Titles: Book Reviews
Authors: Borg, Carmel
Mayo, Peter
Keywords: Books -- Reviews
Simon, Roger I.
Teaching
Education
Culture
Issue Date: 1992
Publisher: OISE Press
Citation: Mayo, P. (1992). [Book Review] Towards a language of hope and possibility : teaching against the grain by Roger I. Simon. In Book Reviews (pp. 161-167). Toronto: OISE Press.
Abstract: This is one of the latest books in the Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series. It is the third time that Simon appears as an author in the series. On the two other occasions, he first appears as a co-editor (with Henry A. Giroux) of a volume entitled Popular Culture, Schooling and Everyday Life (1989) and then as co-author (with Don Dippo and Arlene Schenke) of Leaming Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education (1991). This time, though, he is sole author of the text at band. Roger 1. Simon is regarded as an important figure within the Critical Pedagogy movement and, unlike some other authors, he provides us with no unsmoothened collation of previously published articles but with a coherent volume consisting of an analytic exposition of his pedagogical ideas expressed within the context of the development of a "project of possibility" - a project which highlights the importance of human agency in the process of social transformation. Simon defines a project of possibility as " an activity determined by both real and present conditions and certain conditions still to come, which it is trying to bring into being" (p.22).
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/102749
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