The Practice of Equality

«This book will be hugely helpful for anyone thinking about what equality and emancipation mean in the context of education, and how Jacques Rancière’s polemical interventions can be made sense of in relation to more familiar thinkers in the field, such as Foucault and Freire. It is a vital resource for developing ideas about what critical pedagogy means today.» (Dr Caroline Pelletier, Reader in Culture and Communication at UCL’s Institute of Education)

«Around the world, educators, students, and community activists are filling the streets in resistance to the marketization of education and other neoliberal policies and practices that have functioned for more than 30 years to exacerbate inequalities across societies. Never has there been a better time to read Cowden and Ridley’s The Practice of Equality, where they beautifully compile a set of insightful essays that brilliantly reinvigorate the revolutionary ideas of French philosopher Jacques Rancière. The volume skillfully ushers in a much needed new wave of critical pedagogical disruption for our times.» (Antonia Darder, Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education, University of Johannesburg)