Faculty Spotlight: E. Wayne Ross

E. Wayne Ross writes and teaches about the politics of curriculum, critical pedagogy, social studies education, and academic labor. His research and teaching focus on the role of curriculum and teaching in building democratic communities that are positioned to challenge the priorities and interests of neoliberal capitalism as manifest in educational and social policies that shape educational experiences. His recent work aims to develop a radical critique of schooling as social control and a collection of strategies that can be used disrupt and resist the anti-democratic and oppressive potentialities of schooling, practices he describes as dangerous citizenship. His new book Working for Social Justice Inside and Outside the Classroom will be published by Peter Lang in 2015.

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