Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"

by Sandlin; Jennifer A.

• ISBN13: 9780415997904
• ISBN10: 0415997909
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-10-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Distinguished international scholars from a wide range of explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This volume is unique within the literature of education in its examination of educational sites ' both formal and informal ' where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.

Author Biography

Jennifer A. Sandlin is Assistant Professor in the Division of Advanced Studies in Education Policy, Leadership, and Curriculum, Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education, Arizona State University, Tempe. Peter McLaren is Professor in the Division of Urban Schooling, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Introduction: Exploring Consumption's Pedagogy and Envisioning a Critical Pedagogy of ConsumptionùLiving and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse"	p. 1
Education, Consumption, and the Social, Economic, and Environmental Crises of Capitalism	p. 21
Rootlessness, Reenchantment, and Educating Desire: A Brief History of the Pedagogy of Consumption	p. 23
Consuming Learning	p. 36
Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue	p. 47
Teaching Against Consumer Capitalism in the Age of Commercialization and Corporatization of Public Education	p. 58
Schooling the Consumer Citizen	p. 67
Schooling for Consumption	p. 69
Schools Inundated in a Marketing-Saturated World	p. 83
Exploring the Privatized Dimension of Entrepreneurship Education and Its Link to the Emergence of the College Student Entrepreneur	p. 97
Framing Higher Education: Nostalgia, Entrepreneurship, Consumerism, and Redemption	p. 108
Politicizing Consumer Education: Conceptual Evolutions	p. 122
Consumption, Popular Culture, Everyday Life, and the Education of Desire	p. 135
Consuming the All-American Corporate Burger: McDonald's "Does It All For You"	p. 137
Barbie: The Bitch Can Buy Anything	p. 148
Consuming Skin: Dermographies of Female Subjection and Abjection	p. 157
Happy Cows and Passionate Beefscapes: Nature as Landscape and Lifestyle in Food Advertisements	p. 169
Creating the Ethical Parent-Consumer Subject: Commerce, Moralities, and Pedagogies in Early Parenthood	p. 180
Chocolate, Place, and a Pedagogy of Consumer Privilege	p. 193
Unlearning Consumerism Through Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Sites of Contestation and Resistance	p. 201
Re-Imagining Consumption: Political and Creative Practices of Arts-Based Environmental Adult Education	p. 203
Using Cultural Production to Undermine Consumption: Paul Robeson as Radical Cultural Worker	p. 214
Beyond the Culture Jam	p. 224
Global Capitalism and Strategic Visual Pedagogy	p. 237
Turning America Into a Toy Store	p. 249
United We Consume? Artists Trash Consumer Culture and Corporate Green-Washing	p. 259
List of Contributors	p. 264
Index	p. 270
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