Worlds of Difference

Peter Pericles Trifonas is Professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. His most recent books are Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy (Rowman & Littlefield 2002), coauthored by Jacques Derrida; Deconstructing Derrida: New Tasks for the Humanities (Palgrave Macmillan 2005); and Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology (Palgrave Macmillan 2005).

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Strategic Alliance or Hegemonic Strategy?, Michael W. Apple; Chapter 2 The “Them” and the “I” of a Hurricane, Jonathan Arendt; Chapter 3 Technological Transformation, Multiple Literacies, and the Re-Visioning of Education, Douglas Kellner; Chapter 4 On Cultural Identity and Difference, Brenda Trofanenko; Chapter 5 The Promise of a Better Future, Neil Harrison; Chapter 6 Transcreation, Transformance, and the Fertility of Difference, Lisa Taylor; Chapter 7 Contesting the New “Young hegelians”, Valerie Scatamburlo-D’annibale, peter McLaren; Chapter 8 Learning the Real, Theorizing the Virtual II, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr.; Chapter 9 Youth and the Politics of Education in Dark Times, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 10 Being Caught Otherwise, Mario Di Paolantonio; Chapter 11 Moving Beyond the Modernist/Postmodernist Knowledge Binary, Gregory O’Leary, Peter Pericles Trifonas;