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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis 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, associate professor of communication arts at Molloy College and co-editor of
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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, Editor of Critical Pedagogy and Race, California State University, Long Beach
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Introduction Part 3 Part 1: Identity/Subjectivity Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Objects in the Mirror: Eduction, Cultural Studies, and the Function of Ideology Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Beyond the Culture Industry: Spatial Theory and Adorno's Non-Identity Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Liquid Identity: Cultural Exchange Between the Reader and the Text Part 7 Part 2: Politics and Resistance Chapter 8 Chapter 4: The Resurgence of Che Guevara in Popular Culture Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Discourse and Media Spectacle in the Bush Administration: A Cultural Studies Analysis Chapter 10 Chapter 6: To Interpost a Little Ease: Making Sense of Sport and Intellectual Labor in C.L.R. James' Beyond a Boundary and His Other Works Part 11 Part 3: Youth Chapter 12 Chapter 7: Sacred Profanities: Youth Alienation, Popular Culture, and Spirituality. An Interview with Donna Gaines Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Constructions of Childhood Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Discourse in Virtual Culture Part 15 Part 4: Gender/Sex Chapter 16 Chapter 10: "Are We Going to Prom or to Hell?" A New Heroine Emerges Through the Domination Conflict Chapter 17 Chapter 11: Well Endowed with Meaning: Ethnicity and Masculinity in Teen Prostitution Part 18 Part 5: Pedagogy Chapter 19 Chapter 12: The Pedagogical Unconsciousness: Rethinking Marxist Pedagogy through Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson Chapter 20 Chapter 13: Insiders and Outsiders: Using Representations of Teachers in the British Press to Understand Teacher Identity Chapter 21 About the Authors Chapter 22 Index
