Critical Pedagogy and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Fatma Mizikaci is Head of the Curriculum and Instruction Division and English Language Teaching Department in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey.Eda Ata is a PhD student at Lifelong Learning and Adult Education Programme in the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Ankara University, Turkey and an EAP Lecturer.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Constructing Communities of Critical Pedagogy in the Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Fatma Mizikaci (Ankara University, Turkey)Part I: New Cultural and Social Agendas of Totalitarian Regimes and Their Influence on Education in the Time of the Covid-19 Pandemic1. An Interview with Henry Giroux: Cultural Studies and Pandemic Pedagogy, Henry A. Giroux (McMaster University, Canada)2. Radical and Hopeful Discussions about Times of Brutal Conservatism: Paths of Fight and Transformation in the Light of Paulo Freire, Peter McLaren (Chapman University, USA)3. Critical Analysis and Discussion of the Covid-19 Crisis, Michael W. Apple (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)4. Higher Education in the Time of Corona, Peter Mayo (University of Malta, Malta)5. Freire and a Revolutionary Praxis of the Body: Countering the One-Dimensionality of Banking Education, Antonia Darder (Loyola Marymount University, USA)6. A Crisis within a Crisis: Teaching, Learning, and Democracy under Neoliberalism during the Pandemic, Wayne Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada)7. Paulo Freire at 100, Still Inspiring: An Interview with Ira Shor, Ira Shor (College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA)Part II: From Geographical Pedagogies to Universal Moments: United States, Mexico, Turkey, Germany, Norway in the Pandemic8. Race, Plague and Resistance, Guy Senese (Northern Arizona University, USA)9. A Pedagogy of Questioning: Vocational Learning: The Art of Reflective Curiosity, Liv Mjelde (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)10. Between Bildung and Erziehung: Mass Education during the Pandemic, Arnd-Michael Nohl (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität and Universität der Bundeswehr, Germany)11. The Agenda of Critical Pedagogy during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Turkey, Fevziye Sayilan (Ankara University, Turkey) and Zeynep Alica (Ankara University, Turkey)Part III: Critical Reflections and Mobilization: Constructing Digital Communities12. Transformative Power of Digital Communities: A Critical Educator’s Perspective, Eda Ata (Ankara University, Turkey)13. Grounding Critical Educators’ Lives on Solidarity, Community and Friendship, Zeynep Alica (Ankara University, Turkey) and Yasemin Tezgiden Cakcak (Middle East Technical University, Turkey)14. Coming to Terms with the Covid-19 Pandemic: Perceptions of a Language Teacher, Murat Ata (Middle East Technical University, Northern Cyprus Campus, Turkey)15. Rethinking Social Transformation from Informal Learning to Political Learning in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Ali Tansu Balci (Ankara University, Turkey)16. Critical Pedagogy Confronts Technology: Responses to the Challenges of the New Education Reality during the Pandemic, Kemal Inal (Helmut Schmidt University, Germany)17. Cultural Resistance of Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Authoritarian Populism, Gamze Gonca Özyurt (Ankara University, Turkey)18. Rediscovering Teacher Voice in Higher Education in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Nurcan Saltoglu Özleyen (TOBB University of Economics and Technology, Turkey)ReferencesIndex

As we are moving into the third decade of the 21st century, this important text insightfully contributes to our contemporary understanding of the praxis of critical pedagogy.