Maria Nikolakaki, Assistant Professor of Pedagogy and Education at the University of Peloponnese, is a critical theorist who is well known in her field. She has published extensively in the areas of critical pedagogy, mathematics education, citizenship education, and lifelong learning.

• Contents: Henry Giroux: Rethinking the Promise of Critical Pedagogy: A Foreword – Maria Nikolakaki: Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Ages: Challenges and Possibilities: An Introduction – Slavoj Žižek: Living in the Time of Monsters – Paulo Freire: On the Right and the Duty to Change the World – Noam Chomsky: Democracy and Education – Cornelius Castoriadis: Paideia and Democracy – Takis Fotopoulos: From (Mis)Education to Paideia – Howard Zinn/Donaldo Macedo: Schools and the Manufacture of Mass Deception: A Dialogue – Joe L. Kincheloe: Critical Pedagogy in the Twenty-First Century: Evolution for Survival – Peter McLaren: The Future of the Past: Reflections on the Present State of Empire and Pedagogy – Peter Trifonas/Effie Balomenos: Postructuralism, Difference, and Critical Pedagogy – Shirley R. Steinberg: Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Studies Research: The Bricolage in Action – Stanley Aronowitz: Paulo Freire’s Radical Democratic Humanism: The Fetish of Method – Antónia Darder: Creating the Conditions for Cultural Democracy in the Classroom – Vivian Gareía López: The Struggles to Eliminate the Tenacious Four-Letter «F» Word in Education – Henry A. Giroux: Higher Education Under Siege: Rethinking the Politics of Critical Pedagogy – Lilia I. Bartolomé: Understanding Academic Discourses – Ana Maria Araújo Freire: Afterword: Relating Paulo Freire’s Life to His Understanding of Education, Culture, and Democracy.