Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organizaed by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.
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“The editors have brought together leading radical sociologists, educators, and others to discuss working-class popular culture, critical pedagogy, and the possibilities of school-related social reconstruction. Whether the book succeeds in providing `the pedagogical grounds for radicalizing the emancipatory possibilities of teaching and learning,' is `a discourse that represents a political as well as a pedagogical project.' The overall tone is thoughtfully restrained, yet urgent--not stridently polemical as in conventional neo-Marxist tracts. This is a contribution to critical, normative, and interpretive educational scholarship. Interpretations of rock 'n' roll (e.g., Springsteen's work), television situation comedies (`The Honeymooners'), and, especially, Hollywood movies (Dirty Dancing) are most helpful in demonstrating the efficacy of popular culture. Quality of the writing ranges from jargonized critical theorizing to trenchant analyses of popular `art' (Paul Willis), televangelism (Peter McLaren and Richard Smith), `romance' programs on TV (Mimi White), and working-class life-style (Stanley Aronowitz). E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Cultural Literacy) and Allan Bloom (The Closing of the American Mind) may have met their match in this strategically crafted case for the expansion of social democracy in post industrial society. Copious chapter references and occasional photographs, and an index. Graduate level.”–Choice
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HENRY A. GIROUX, Professor and Scholar in Residence in the School of Education at Miami University, Ohio, is known internationally for his work in critical pedagogy and has published eleven books on the subject.
ROGER SIMON is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
ROGER SIMON is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.
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In the past decade radical educators have begun to take seriously the issue of student experience as a central component in developing a theory of schooling and cultural politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Christian Right, United States, New Right, The All New Dating Game, Lethal Weapon, Kegan Paul, Roland Barthes, Lawrence Grossberg, The New Newlywed Game, Dick Hebdige, Stuart Hall, Journal of Education, Michel Foucault, Screen Education, Sesame Street, Heartbreak Ridge, New Left, Paul Willis, Perfect Match, South Hadley, Square One, Tony Bennett, University of Minnesota Press, Bruce Springsteen New!
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In the past decade radical educators have begun to take seriously the issue of student experience as a central component in developing a theory of schooling and cultural politics. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Christian Right, United States, New Right, The All New Dating Game, Lethal Weapon, Kegan Paul, Roland Barthes, Lawrence Grossberg, The New Newlywed Game, Dick Hebdige, Stuart Hall, Journal of Education, Michel Foucault, Screen Education, Sesame Street, Heartbreak Ridge, New Left, Paul Willis, Perfect Match, South Hadley, Square One, Tony Bennett, University of Minnesota Press, Bruce Springsteen New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Popular Culture and Social Relations by Tony Bennett on 5 pages
- THEORY IN THE CLASSROOM by Cary Nelson on 5 pages
- The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom on 4 pages
- Prison Notebooks, Volume 3 (vol. 3) by Antonio Gramsci on 4 pages
- Critical Pedagogy and Cultural Power by David W. Livingstone on 4 pages
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- Western Education and Political Domination in Africa: A Study in Critical and Dialogical Pedagogy by Magnus O. Bassey in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment (Teachers' Library) by Joe L. Kincheloe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Teachers as Researchers: Qualitative Inquiry as a Path to Empowerment (Teachers' Library) by Joe L. Kincheloe in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Popular Music, Gender and Postmodernism: Anger Is an Energy by Neil Nehring in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Whatever Happened to High School History?: Burying the Political Memory of Youth, Ontario: 1945-1995 (Our Schools) by Bob Davis on page 172
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