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Through Hannah Arendt's account of human labour, work, and action, and Jean Baudrillard's consideration of the visual character of consumerism, Norris examines how school commercialism has been critically engaged by in-class activities such as media literacy programs and educational policies regulating school-business partnerships.

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Introduction: Consumerism In Our Own Schoolyards * The Origins and Nature of Consumerism * Consuming Schooling: Whose schools are they? * Hannah Arendt: Consuming the Polis * Jean Baudrillard: Consuming Signs * Resisting Consuming: Ruin or Renewal Conclusion: "What is to come"

Consuming Schools

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      Publisher: University of Toronto Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/01/2011
      ISBN13: 9781442611078, 978-1442611078
      ISBN10: 1442611073

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Through Hannah Arendt's account of human labour, work, and action, and Jean Baudrillard's consideration of the visual character of consumerism, Norris examines how school commercialism has been critically engaged by in-class activities such as media literacy programs and educational policies regulating school-business partnerships.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Consumerism In Our Own Schoolyards * The Origins and Nature of Consumerism * Consuming Schooling: Whose schools are they? * Hannah Arendt: Consuming the Polis * Jean Baudrillard: Consuming Signs * Resisting Consuming: Ruin or Renewal Conclusion: "What is to come"

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