Schooling in the Light of Popular Culture (Suny Se (Suny Series, Education and Culture) (Suny Series in Education and Culture : Critical Factors in the Formation of Character and Community in Ame) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791418723 ISBN 13: 9780791418727

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1994

Synopsis

Many factors contribute to the way individuals come to an understanding of what schooling is about and where it might be headed. This book explores the role of popular culture in that process.

The authors illustrate how powerful and suggestive images and ideas about teachers, learning, and other aspects of schooling are constructed in the “texts” of various modes of popular culture. As a basis for further inquiry, the book describes important tendencies and patterns in the representation of aspects of schooling. It also provides examples of analytical approaches and strategies for thinking about the significance of patterns with respect to questions of meaning, power, and pedagogy in schooling practices. At the interface of educational and cultural studies, the book encourages inquiry into mainstream popular culture, and explores how this culture contributes to forms of discourse about the nature and direction of schooling.

About this title

About the Author:

At Western Michigan University’s Department of Educational and Professional Development, Paul Farber is Associate Professor and Gunilla Holm is Assistant Professor.

Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. is Professor in the School of Education at the University of Miami.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0791418723
• ISBN 13: 9780791418727
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 294
• Editor: Provenzo Jr. Eugene F.