Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle by Henry A. Giroux (English)

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Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.

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Henry A. Giroux is Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio. Peter L. McLaren is Associate Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Schooling, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle for Democracy Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLaren Part One: Schooling and Public Life 1. Education, State, and Culture in American Society Martin Carnoy 2. Can There Be a Liberal Philosophy of Education in a Democratic Society? Samuel Bowles and Herbart Gintis 3. The Politics of Common Sense: Schooling, Populism, and the New Right Michael W. Apple 4. Schooling and the Family Miriam E. David Part Two: Rethinking Schooling as the Language Reform 5. Fixing the Schools: The Ideological Turn Walter Feinberg Index

Review

"It's imaginative, critical, powerful, and trenchant. The book is clearly on the cutting edge of educational theory." - David Purpel, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "It deals with substantive and urgent issues regarding the current debate over schooling, yet is surprisingly diverse and wide-ranging, both in the perspectives it articulates and the theoretical discourses which inform it. The international flavor here is a genuine asset. The issues discussed are very important and are among the key concerns facing contemporary schooling in our society. This book is definitely in the forefront of work on cultural approaches to schooling and society. Personally, I consider the approach the authors of this book have taken to be among the most advanced approaches in school research. It draws from anthropology, semiotics, Marxist theory, hermeneutics, etc." - Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Long Description

Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.

Review Quote

"It's imaginative, critical, powerful, and trenchant. The book is clearly on the cutting edge of educational theory." -- David Purpel, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "It deals with substantive and urgent issues regarding the current debate over schooling, yet is surprisingly diverse and wide-ranging, both in the perspectives it articulates and the theoretical discourses which inform it. The international flavor here is a genuine asset. The issues discussed are very important and are among the key concerns facing contemporary schooling in our society. This book is definitely in the forefront of work on cultural approaches to schooling and society. Personally, I consider the approach the authors of this book have taken to be among the most advanced approaches in school research. It draws from anthropology, semiotics, Marxist theory, hermeneutics, etc." -- Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Details ISBN0791400379 Short Title CRITICAL PEDAGOGY STATE & CULT Pages 299 Publisher State University of New York Press Language English ISBN-10 0791400379 ISBN-13 9780791400371 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1989 Author Peter L. McLaren Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 AU Release Date 1989-07-03 NZ Release Date 1989-07-03 US Release Date 1989-07-03 UK Release Date 1989-07-03 Series SUNY series, Teacher Empowerment and School Reform Publication Date 1989-07-03 Imprint State University of New York Press Alternative 9780791400364 Edited by Peter L. McLaren DEWEY 306 Audience Undergraduate We've got this

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