Luis S. Villacañas de Castro is Assistant Professor in the Department of Language and Literature Education at the Faculty of Education, University of Valencia, Spain. He has published abundantly in political philosophy, epistemology, critical pedagogy, and language education.

• Introduction: The Pedagogical Obstacle of the Phenomenal Forms PART I: MARX, FREUD, PEDAGOGY 1. Beyond The Ignorant Schoolmaster. On Education, Marxism, and Psychoanalysis PART II: EPISTEMOLOGY, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND LIBERAL PRINCIPLES 2. The Pedagogical Problem: Vygotsky's Encounter with Marx's Phenomenal Forms 3. The Pedagogical Solution: Freire's Critical Pedagogy and Social Democracy PART III: THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDUCATIONAL ACTION RESEARCH 4. The Critical Potential of John Elliott's Liberal Pedagogy 5. A Practical Case of Participatory Meta-Action Research

“This volume has three sections and an introduction. … Theological libraries that support programs with components of theological methodology should add this text to their collections. In addition, faculty and graduate students who are working with participatory action research should read this book to explore the epistemological foundations of their methodology.” (Jonathan Roach, Reflective Teaching, 2016)