Introduction : critical education theory in unsettling times / Education in unsettling times : public intellectuals and the promise of cultural studies / Pulp fictions? education, markets, and the information superhighway / Citizens or consumers? continuity and change in contemporary education policy / Respondent: "distressed worlds" : social justice through educational transformations / Becoming right : education and the formation of conservative movements / On shaky grounds : constucting white working-class masculinities in the late twentieth century / Self and education : reversals and cycles / Respondent: self education : identity, self, and the new politics of education / Danger in the safety zone : notes on race, resentment, and the discourse of crime, violence, and suburban security / Fiction, fantasy, and femininities : popular texts and young women's literacies / Image is nothing : struggling to unsettle basal readers and more / Respondent: loose change : the production of texts / On the limits to empowerment through critical and feminist pedagogies / Who will survive America? pedagogy as cultural preservation / Global politics and local antagonisms : research and practice as dissent and possibility / Respondent: pedagogy for an oppositional community