Popular Culture: Schooling and Everyday Life

by Henry A. Giroux, Roger Simon

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780897891868
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/28/1989
Series:	Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Henry A. Giroux holds the Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, Canada. His books include On Critical
Pedagogy, 2nd Edition (2020), Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy (2021),
Pedagogy of Resistance (2022), Insurrections (2023) and Fascism on Trial
(co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio) (2024), all published by Bloomsbury.

ROGER I. SIMON is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. Simon has conducted extensive research and authored numerous publications in the areas of critical pedagogy and cultural studies—work that emphasizes both theory and concrete application. He is co-author, with Don Dippo and Arleen Schenke, of Learning Work: A Critical Pedagogy of Work Education (Bergin & Garvey, 1991).

Table of Contents

Pedagogy, Popular Culture, and Public Life: An Introduction by Paulo Freire and Henry A. Giroux
Popular Culture as a Pedagogy of Pleasure and Meaning by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon
Pedagogy and the Popular-Cultural-Commodity-Text by Paul Smith
Educational Media, Ideology, and the Presentation of Knowledge through Popular Cultural Forms by Elizabeth Ellsworth
Playing . . . Contra/Dictions, Empowerment, and Embodiment: Punk, Pedagogy, and Popular Cultural Forms by Philip Corrigan
Pedagogy in the Present: Politics, Postmodernity, and the Popular by Lawrence Grossberg
Curriculum Politics, Hegemony, and Strategies of Social Change by R.W. Connell
Art or Culture? An Inquiry by Paul Willis
Televangelism as Pedagogy and Cultural Politics by Peter McLaren and Richard Smith
Engendering Couples: The Subject of Daytime Television by Mimi White
Working-Class Identity and Celluloid Fantasies in the Electronic Age by Stanley Aronowitz
Schooling, Popular Culture, and A Pedagogy of Possibility by Henry A. Giroux and Roger I. Simon
Index