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Synopsis
Fanon and Education: Thinking Through Pedagogical Possibilities challenges conventional education to go beyond the formal procedures of schooling to engage in the making of multiple meanings of our world. Understanding education requires a holistic approach that extends beyond contemporary classrooms. Education must also be inclusive, addressing questions of difference, diversity and power, as conceptualized through the lens of class, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexuality, religion, language and indigenity. These issues are viewed in light of Fanon's oeuvre to articulate a social theory and progressive educational politics that might help us understand difference as political, as well as dominant schooling as a form of internalized oppression that works on myriad bodies differently in schooling and education. Fanon and Education will have a broad appeal to readers who want to engage Fanon's ideas in the schooling and educational politics of change and transformation. It should be read by all students, teachers, educational practitioners, community activists and researchers. It will have particular appeal as an assigned text in teacher-training colleges, as well as for graduate instruction in university departments of education, social work and sociology.