University Press of America
Pages: 300
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-3818-0 • Paperback • October 2007 • $55.99 • (£43.00)
Paul C. Mocombe is the Education Director for The Russell Life Skills and Reading Foundation, Inc. A social theorist interested in the application of social theory to contemporary issues such as race, class, and capitalism (globalization), he is in the Department of Comparative Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and the author of, Labor Approach to the Development of the Self or Modern Personality: The Case of Public Education and The Mocombeian Strategy: The Reason for, and Answer to Black Failure in Capitalist Education.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Post-Industrial Pedagogy in America, The Hegemony of Globalization or the Contemporary World-System
Chapter 3 The Sociolinguistic Nature of Black Academic Failure in Capitalist Education: A Reevaluation of "Language in the Inner-City" and its Social Function, "Acting White"
Chapter 4 Where Did Freire Go Wrong? Pedagogy in Globalization: The Grenadian Example
Chapter 5 Toward Democratic Communism: What is to be Done When All are Interpellated and "Embourgeoised" Capitalists
Part 6 References