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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458152003321

Autore

Aronowitz Stanley

Titolo

Postmodern education [[electronic resource] ] : politics, culture, and social criticism / / Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1991

ISBN

0-8166-8350-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GirouxHenry A

Disciplina

370.19/0973

370.190973

Soggetti

Education - Aims and objectives - United States

Education - Political aspects - United States

Educational sociology - United States

Postmodernism and education

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Class, Race, and Gender in Educational Politics; 2. Textual Authority, Culture, and the Politics of Literacy; 3. Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism; 4. Cultural Politics, Reading Formations, and the Role of Teachers as Public Intellectuals; 5. Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism; 6. The Punishment of Disciplines: Cultural Studies and the Transformation of Legitimate Knowledge; 7. Working-Class Displacements and Postmodern Representations

8. Conclusion: Postmodernism as Politics-Beyond Difference as Technological Utopianism and Cultural SeparatismIndex

Sommario/riassunto

The first book to offer a systematic look at the significance of postmodernist ideas for education.