Carlos Alberto Torres is professor of social sciences and comparative education and director of Paulo Freire Institute, University of California, Los Angeles. He is also past president of the Comparative International Education Society and past president of the Research Committee of Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association.Antonio Teodoro is a professor at Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal and vice president of the Research Committee of Sociology of Education, International Sociological Association.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Critique and Utopia in the Sociology of EducationPart 2 Part I: Sociology of Education: New Perspectives and Debates in the Twenty-First CenturyChapter 3 Schooling for Critical Education: The Reinvention of Schools as Democratic OrganizationsChapter 4 Globalization and the Rescaling of Educational Governance: A Case of Sociological EctopiaChapter 5 Human Rights and Citizenship: The Emergence of Human Rights EducationChapter 6 Europe as a Bazaar: A Contribution to the Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Nation-states and New Forms of 'Living Together'Chapter 7 Educational Policies and the Sense of Possibility: A Contribution to Democratic Education in a Progressive AgeChapter 8 Rescuing Education from Corporate Takeover: from 'Public Choice' to Public ActionPart 9 Part II: Theoretical Resources for the Sociology of EducationChapter 10 Basil Bernstein and the Sociology for EducationChapter 11 Sociology of Education or the Education of Sociology? Paulo Freire and the Sociology of EducationChapter 12 Bourdieu's Sociology of Education: Identifying Persistent Inequality, Unmasking Domination and Fighting Social ReproductionChapter 13 Paulo Freire, Education and Transformative Social Justice Learning

This book provides a significant contribution to the sociology of education. Bringing together current academic debates in Europe and the Americas, the volume connects theoretical debates with empirical data, and a critical analysis of our existing social reality with a language of possibility and transformation. Critique and Utopia: New Developments in the Sociology of Education in the Twenty First Century is an important reading for all those interested in the role that education plays - and could play - in the struggles for democracy in the current context of neoliberal globalization and beyond.