Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice

by Henry A. Giroux (Editor), Patrick Shannon (Editor)

Overview

Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their work overlap. Education and Cultural Studies brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can transgressively implement broad political change. All written from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators. In eschewing a romantic utopianism, and in assessing the current climate of what is attainable and practical, this book teaches us how we can begin to translate and perhaps even transform the vexing social problems that confront us daily. Contributors include Carol Becker, Harvey J. Kaye, David Theo Goldberg, Jeffrey Williams, Sharon Todd, Douglas Kellner, Deborah Britzman, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Claudia Mitchell, Cameron McCarthy, Mike Hill, Susan Searls, Stanley Aronowitz, Douglas Noble, Kakie Urch, Henry Giroux, David Trend, and Robert Mikilitsch.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135254995
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Henry A. Giroux is author of Fugitive Cultures (1996), Counternarratives (1996), Disturbing Pleasures (1994), Border Crossings (1991), and co-editor of Between Borders (1993), all published by Routledge. Patrick Shannon is Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is co-editor of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Education and the Crisis of the Public Intellectual1. Carol Becker -- The Artist as Public Intellectual 2. Harvey J. Kaye -- Beyond the Last Intellectuals3. David Theo Goldberg -- Whiter West? The Making of a Public Intellectual4. Jeffrey Williams -- The Romance of the Intellectual and the Question of ProfessionGendering Identities5. Sharon Todd -- Psychoanalytic Questions, Pedagogical Possibilities, and Authority: Encountering the And6. Douglas Kellner -- Man Trouble7. Deborah P. Britzman -- Toward a Polymorphous Perverse Curriculum8. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- And I Want to Thank You, Barbie: Barbie As a Site of Cultural InterrogationRace Matters9. Cameron McCarthy -- The Problem with Origins: Race and the Contrapuntual Nature10. Mike Hill -- Trading Races: Majorities, Modernities; A Critique 11. Susan Searls -- Race, Schooling, and Double Consciousness: The Politics of Pedagogy in Toni Morrison's Fiction The Marketplace and the Politics of Inequality12. Stanley Aronowitz -- A Different Perspective on Educational Inequality 13. Douglas D. Noble -- Let Them Eat Skills 14. Kakie Urch -- Fighting Academic Agoraphobia: Self-Help Books for Cultural Studies' Fear of the Marketplace Pedagogy, Education and Cultural Studies15. Henry A. Giroux -- Is There a Place for Cultural Studies in College of Education?16. David Trend -- The Fine Art of Teaching17. Robert Miklitsch -- Punk Pedagogy, or Performing Contradiction: The Risks and Rewards of (Anti-)Transference

Editorial Reviews

"...raises vitally important questions about the ultimate purposes of education." — Educational Theory, Fall 1999.
"The introduction and the last section of the book—dealing explicitly with the problems and potentials of bringing cultural studies and critical theory together to study education—will be especially valuable." — Choice

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