Acts of Knowing

Stephen Cowden has taught for the last 10 years at Coventry University, UK. He has a background in political activism in Melbourne, Australia and in London, and has worked as a frontline care worker and Social Worker in the UK before entering academia. He is interested in the Critical Pedagogical tradition as a way of working specifically with students from non-traditional university backgrounds, and also as a methodology for Social Work practice.Gurnam Singh is a Principal Lecturer in Social Work and Co-Director of the Applied Research Group in Social Exclusion in Social Care (SISC) at Coventry University, UK. He was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy in 2009. Throughout his adult life he has been active in numerous social movements whose aim has been to fight for social and economic justice.

• Introduction - Critical Pedagogy and the Crisis in the Contemporary UniversityPart 1 - Perspectives on the Crisis in EducationChapter 1: On the New Poverty of Student LifeChapter 2: Sat-Nav Education - A Means to an End or an End to MeaningChapter 3: Critical pedagogy, Public Sociology and Student ActivismChapter 4: The Practical Politics of 'Criticality' in Higher EducationChapter 5: Opening Spaces of Possibility in the University- Critical Pedagogy in the Teaching of Social JusticePart 2 : Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Chapter 6: Critical Pedagogy and the Uses of Freire and Bourdieu Chapter 7: The Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education Chapter 8: Indigenous PedagogyChapter 9: Popular Education and Higher EducationChapter 10: Critical Pedagogy, Critical Theory and Critical Hope Chapter 11: Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular EducationBibliographyIndex