Teaching Popular Culture

Name: Teaching Popular Culture
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This text seeks to move beyond the limitations of \""critical pedagogy\"" in modern education, drawing on perspectives such as poststructuralism, postmodernism, cultural studies and feminism and seeks to offer positive alternatives. > Teaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of \""critical pedagogy\"" has come under attack, not only from theoretical perspectives such as feminism, anti-racism and postmodernism, but also in The Light Of Actual Classroom Experience. The Notion That Teachers Might \""liberate\"" students through rationalistic forms of ideological critique has been increasingly questioned, not only on the grounds of its political arrogance, but also because of its ineffectiveness in practice. This book seeks to move beyond the limitations of these debates, and to explore positive alternatives. It contains a broad international range of contributions, covering practice from primarn