Culture, Power and Education

Peter Mayo is Professor of Sociology of Education and Adult Education and UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the University of Malta, Malta. His research focuses on the sociology of education, adult education, comparative education, social theory, critical theory and cultural studies. He is the author of Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci (Routledge, 2015) and co-author of Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy (Routledge, 2007). He is also the editor of Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of International Critical Pedagogy Reader (Routledge, 2015).

Introduction 1. Antonio Gramsci, Culture and Power 2. Don Lorenzo Milani and the Schools of San Donato and Barbiana 3. Paulo Freire, Praxis and Power 4. Henry Giroux's Politics of Hope 5. bell hooks: Cultural Production as the Practice of Freedom 6. Critical Pedagogy, Culture and Power 7. Museums as Cultural Politics 8. The Cultural Politics of Fine Arts 9. Popular Culture: Engaging the Popular Imagination and the ‘Holy Week’ Culture Epilogue