Between Borders: Pedagogy and the Politics of Cultural Studies

by Giroux,Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9780415907781
• ISBN10: 0415907780
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-09-09
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Bringing together scholars from the fields of cultural studies and critical pedagogy for the first time,Between Bordersis an attempt to strengthen the links between critical pedagogy and cultural practice. Informed by the belief that critical pedagogy must move beyond the classroom if it is to be truly effective, this collection of essays makes clear how cultural practices--as portrayed in film, in sports, and in the classroom itself--enable cultural studies to deepen its own political possibilities and construct diverse geographies of identity, representation and place. The text is organized around three interconnecting themes: the relationship between pedagogy and media literacy; the intersection of critical pedagogy with issues concerning postmodernism, race, the politics of desire, and postcolonialism; and the question of representation with respect to the relationship between popular culture, the arts, and the state.Between Bordersprovides a muchneeded "third space" for cultural workers to engage the connection between pedagogy and cultural studies while simultaneously offering an analysis of feminist, gay/lesbian, postcolonial, and identity issues that have been too often ignored as both pedagogical and political considerations. Contributors:Henry A. Giroux, Ava Collins, Nancy Fraser, Carol Becker, bell hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Roger I. Simon, Chandra T. Mohanty, Simon Watney, Michele Wallace, Peter McLaren, David Trend, Abdul R. JanMohamed and Kenneth Mostern.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Bringin' It All Back Home - Pedagogy and Cultural Studies	p. 1
Racism, Democracy, and the Pedagogy of Representation
Living Dangerously: Identity Politics and the New Cultural Racism	p. 29
Intellectuals, Power, and Quality Television	p. 56
Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy	p. 74
Desire, Audience, and the Politics of Cultural Memory
The Education of Young Artists and the Issue of Audience	p. 101
Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process	p. 113
Be Like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire	p. 119
Forms of Insurgency in the Production of Popular Memories: The Columbus Quincentenary and the Pedagogy of Countercommemoration	p. 127
Insurgent Multiculturalism and the Journey Into Difference
On Place and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s	p. 145
School's Out	p. 167
Multiculturalism and Oppositionality	p. 180
Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation	p. 192
Nationalism, Postcolonialism, and the Border Intellectual
Nationalities, Pedagogies, and Media	p. 225
Some Implications of Paulo Freire's Border Pedagogy	p. 242
Decolonization as Learning: Practice and Pedagogy in Frantz Fanon's Revolutionary Narrative	p. 253
Index	p. 273
Contributors	p. 281
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