Goodman and Saltman provide here a carefully researched piece of work. Part film criticism, part popular culture, part social commentary, part sociology, the book centers on the corporatization of education and how it is the principle means through which globalization is achieved.
Goodman and Saltman provide here a carefully researched piece of work. Part film criticism, part popular culture, part social commentary, part sociology, the book centers on the corporatization of education and how it is the principle means through which globalization is achieved.
Strange Love provides a remarkable multidisciplinary breadth and depth of documentary research and charts important new investigative and humanistic territory. It will be of value to faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in further research on educational corporatization and globalization, especially within humanistic, aesthetic, ethical, and cultural traditions.
Part educational theory, part cultural studies, part investigative journalism, this book judges the results of innovative corporate initiatives in public education such as Knowledge Universe, Amoco's iMPACT, the Pegasus Prize, as well as the educational impact of some recent films. Strange Love is a thoroughly researched and important book.
'You are either with us or against us!' is a popular proclamation these days, one largely without an explanation of who actually profits from neo-liberal symbolic, cultural, and economic agendas. Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market takes the issue of 'us' head on. Courageously, Truth Goodman and Saltman reveal how neo-liberal markets cannot solve what they in fact create, and that the possibilities of 'us' in any real participatory democracy requires consciousness and not coercion.--Pepi Leistyna, author, Presence of Mind: Education and the Politics of Deception and Defining and Designing Multiculturalism
Part educational theory, part cultural studies, part investigative journalism, this book judges the results of innovative corporate initiatives in public education such as Knowledge Universe, Amoco's iMPACT, the Pegasus Prize, as well as the educational impact of some recent films. Strange Love is a thoroughly researched and important book.--Alphonso Lingis, author, The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common
Strange Love provides a remarkable multidisciplinary breadth and depth of documentary research and charts important new investigative and humanistic territory. It will be of value to faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in further research on educational corporatization and globalization, especially within humanistic, aesthetic, ethical, and cultural traditions.--Teachers College Record
'You are either with us or against us!' is a popular proclamation these days, one largely without an explanation of who actually profits from neo-liberal symbolic, cultural, and economic agendas. Strange Love: How We Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Market takes the issue of 'us' head on. Courageously, Truth Goodman and Saltman reveal how neo-liberal markets cannot solve what they in fact create, and that the possibilities of 'us' in any real participatory democracy requires consciousness and not coercion.
Goodman and Saltman provide here a carefully researched piece of work. Part film criticism, part popular culture, part social commentary, part sociology, the book centers on the corporatization of education and how it is the principle means through which globalization is achieved.
Goodman (English, Florida State U.) and Saltman (social and cultural studies, DePaul U.) examine ways in which three specific cultural forms<-->curricula, multicultural literature, and popular films<-- >educate the public ideologically. Coverage includes ways in which corporate initiatives in education present themselves as philanthropy, entertainment and progressive pedagogy while disguising their attack on the public sector and democracy; ways in which recent multicultural and postcolonial literature alleges to further democratic inclusion while in reality supporting policies which undermine democracy; and ways in which two popular films claim to support family and childhood innocence while in reality denying the social and sanctifying the private sphere and consumerism. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
