| Popular Culture: Schooling and Everyday Life Contributor(s): Giroux, Henry (Author), Simon, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897891864 ISBN-13: 9780897891868 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $44.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 1989 Annotation: Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organizaed by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education |
| Dewey: 370.19 |
| LCCN: 89-35822 |
| Lexile Measure: 1480 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Education |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.77 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture. |