Worlds of Difference

The varying interests of competing minority groups often part company with regard to how to achieve an equitable community. Worlds of Difference rethinks the traditional interpretation of the principle of educational equity in light of this difficulty. Theorists and educational practitioners influenced by many disparate schools of thought reflect upon the possibilities of a "curriculum of difference" in relation to questions of language, culture, and media at the forefront of global education issues today. Collectively, the authors argue that education in theory and practice must reawaken an ethical consciousness that affirms the negative values of difference, but still recognizes the uniqueness and particularity of each group. 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;