Rethinking Sociological Critique in Contemporary Education: Reflexive Dialogue and Prospective Inquiry

This book explores a new repertoire for critique in the sociology of contemporary education, focusing on emerging social theories that respond to challenges in education, policy, and governance. It includes interviews with leading scholars and thinkers and offers global and decolonial perspectives to study current transformations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 19 December 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This comprehensive book delves into a fresh array of critique approaches within the realm of contemporary education, specifically focusing on emerging social theories that adeptly address the pressing challenges faced by education, education policy, and governance. By presenting a diverse range of sociological perspectives, including pragmatist critical sociology, neo-Marxism, post-digital sociology, new materialisms, affirmative critique of education, and post-colonial studies, the chapters within this book engage in a novel and collaborative dialogue, exploring the strengths, limitations, and complexities of these emerging social theories in the context of contemporary education. Furthermore, the book justifies its innovative approach by incorporating a series of insightful interviews with renowned scholars and thinkers from both within and outside the field of education, shedding light on the significance of critique in contemporary society and education.

The book offers valuable global and decolonial insights, drawing upon innovative theorizing and empirical illustrations from various countries, to examine the ongoing transformations in our world. By highlighting alternative visions of these transformations in an era of globalization, fragmentation, and rising nationalism, this cutting-edge book holds immense appeal to researchers, academics, and postgraduate students specializing in the sociology of education, the philosophy of education, social theory, political science, and comparative policy and politics, in general.

Weight: 621g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032246086