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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783962503321

Titolo

Teaching popular culture : beyond radical pedagogy / / edited by David Buckingham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Bristol, Pa. : , : UCL Press, , 1998

ISBN

1-135-36044-8

1-135-36045-6

0-203-15864-4

0-203-00706-9

1-280-40064-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Media, Education and Culture

Altri autori (Persone)

BuckinghamDavid <1954->

Disciplina

306.071

Soggetti

Critical pedagogy

Popular culture - Study and teaching

Education in popular culture

Popular education - Philosophy

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

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Pedagogy and Authority; Chapter 3 Butt Jokes and Mean-teacher Parodies; Chapter 4 Pedagogy, Parody and Political Correctness; Chapter 5 Dealing with Feeling; Chapter 6 Provocations for a Media Education in Small Letters; Chapter 7 Beyond Classroom Culture; Chapter 8 Tricks of the Trade; Chapter 9 Teaching for Difference: Learning Theory; Notes on Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 beyo