cultural studies, democratic education, and public life /
co-edited by Greg Dimitriadis and Dennis Carlson.
New York :
RoutledgeFalmer,
2003.
1 online resource (xi, 316 pages) :
illustrations
Social theory, education, and cultural change
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.
I: Education and the new cultural terrain -- 1. The globalization of capitalism and the new imperialism: notes toward a revolutionary critical pedagogy / Peter McLaren and Ramin Farahmandpur -- 2. Civil society and educational publics: possibilities and problems / Kathleen Knight Abowitz -- 3. Extraordinary conversations in public schools / Lois Weis and Michelle Fine -- 4. A talk to teachers: James Baldwin as postcolonial artist and public intellectual / Greg Dimitriadis and Cameron McCarthy -- 5. Promises to keep, finally? Academic culture and the dismissal of popular culture / John A. Weaver and Toby Daspit -- II: Reimagining curriculum and pedagogical practice -- 6. Stan Douglas and the aesthetic critique of urban decline / Warren Crichlow -- 7. Screening race / Norman K. Denzin -- 8. Troubling heroes: of Rosa Parks, multicultural education, and critical pedagogy / Dennis Carlson -- 9. The symbolic curriculum: reading the Confederate flag as a southern heritage text / Susan L. Schramm-Pate and Dennis Carlson -- 10. Urban education, broadcast news, and multicultural spectatorship / Suellyn M. Henke -- 11. "They need someone to show them discipline": preservice teachers' understanding and expectations of student (Re)presentations in Dangerous Minds / Debra Freedman -- Schooling in capitalist America: theater of the oppressor or the oppressed? / Carlos Alberto Torres.
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For all of its promise, public education in the twentieth century never lived up to its democratic potential. This book takes a serious look at the slow erosion of the fuller democratic meaning of a public education and a public life.