Introduction : critical educational theory in unsettling times / Dennis Carlson and Michael W. Apple -- Education in unsettling times : public intellectuals and the promise of cultural studies / Henry A. Giroux -- Pulp fictions? education, markets, and the information superhighway / Jane Kenway -- Citizens or consumers? continuity and change in contemporary education policy / Geoff Whitty -- Respondent: "distressed worlds" : social justice through educational transformations / Madeleine Arnot -- Becoming right : education and the formation of conservative movements / Michael W. Apple and Anita Oliver -- On shaky grounds : constructing white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis, and Judi Addelston -- Self and education : reversals and cycles / Philip Wexler -- Respondent: self education : identity, self, and the new politics of education / Dennis Carlson -- Danger in the safety zone : notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence, and suburban security / Cameron McCarthy ... [et al.] -- Fiction, fantasy, and femininities : popular texts and young women's literacies / Linda K. Christian-Smith -- Image is nothing : struggling to unsettle basal readers and more / Patrick Shannon and Patricia Crawford -- Respondent: loose change : the production of texts / William G. Tierney -- On the limits to empowerment through critical and feminist pedagogies / Jennifer M. Gore -- Who will survive America? pedagogy as cultural preservation / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Global politics and local antagonisms : research and practice as dissent and possibility / Peter McLaren and Kris Gutierrez -- Respondent: pedagogy for an oppositional community / Kathleen Weiler