Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools

by Benjamin Frymer Sonoma State University (Editor), John Broughton (Editor), Matthew Carlin (Editor), K Daniel Cho (Contribution by), Brian Friedberg (Contribution by)

Overview

Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and popular culture have a growing impact on our youth, their identities, and everyday lives. In our highly mediated world, the nature of education has been dramatically transformed and taken way beyond the walls of our schools. Identities are formed, values learned, and relationships developed in the worlds of pop culture and media spaces. Each author brings a different lens to the study of education beyond the classroom. From the re-emergence of Che Guevara to the effects of an increasingly virtual culture, this collection critically attends to the changing nature of education and the impact of culture in the lives of youth. Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools raises significant questions and offers important insights for teachers, youth, scholars, and practitioners, alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780739119532
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	07/01/2011
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Benjamin Frymer is assistant professor of sociology in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University. Matthew Carlin is visiting assistant professor of critical and visual studies at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.John Broughton is associate professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments v

Introduction Benjamin Frymer Matt Carlin John Broughton 1

Identity/Subjectivity

1 Objects in the Mirror: Education, Cultural Studies, and the Function of Ideology K. Daniel Cho 15

2 Beyond the Culture Industry: Spatial Theory and Adorno's Non-Identity Justin Wilford 37

3 Liquid Identity: Cultural Exchange Between the Reader and the Text Nikolina Nedeljkov 53

Politics and Resistance

4 The Resurgence of the Image of Che: Spirituality, Innervation, and Mimesis Matt Carlin 73

5 Discourse and Media Spectacle in the Bush Administration: A Cultural Studies Analysis Douglas Kellner 93

6 To Interpose a Little Ease: Making Sense of Sport and Intellectual Labor in C.L.R. James' Beyond A Boundary and His Other Works Cameron McCarthy 127

Youth

7 Sacred Profanities: Youth Alienation, Popular Culture, and Spirituality-An Interview With Donna Gaines Benjamin Frymer 151

8 Constructions of Childhood Jason Wallin 165

9 Discourse in Virtual Culture Brian Friedberg 193

Gender/Sex

10 "Are We Going to Prom or to Hell?" A New Heroine Emerges Through the Domination Conflict Jessica Lee Hochman 215

11 Well Endowed with Meaning: Ethnicity and Masculinity in Teen Prostitution Rob Maitra 233

Pedagogy

12 The Pedagogical Unconscious: Rethinking Marxist Pedagogy through Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson Tyson Lewis 255

13 Insiders and Outsiders: Using Representations of Teachers in the British Press to Understand Teacher Identity Emily Zemke 273

About the Authors 293

Index 297

Editorial Reviews

There are anthologies and there are intellectual interventions. The intervention by Frymer, Broughton, Carlin, and their international and interdisciplinary collaborators affirms the rightful place of cultural studies in the study of schooling. Scholars and students from all disciplines who read this book will experience an education worth the name.

Zeus Leonardo

This important work asks crucial questions on the professional territorialization of education, and more importantly, what to do about it. The book's contributors provide a lively and timely group of questions on the current state of education, where creativity is stifled in the name of practicality and institutionalized standardization is the norm. This book is a much needed reminder that the purpose of education itself is lost unless critical analysis and a cultural studies perspective help move education away from institutions, and back to an approach to humanities and social sciences that serve to foster independent thinking and crucial analysis in students.

Brian Cogan