Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice

by Giroux,Henry A.

• ISBN13: 9780415919142
• ISBN10: 0415919142
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-09-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their work overlap.Education and CulturalStudiesbrings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can transgressively implement broad political change. All written from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators. In eschewing a romantic utopianism, and in assessing the current climate of what is attainable and practical, this book teaches us how we can begin to translate and perhaps even transform the vexing social problems that confront us daily. Contributors include Carol Becker, Harvey J. Kaye, David Theo Goldberg, Jeffrey Williams, Sharon Todd,Douglas Kellner, Deborah Britzman, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Claudia Mitchell, Cameron McCarthy, Mike Hill, Susan Searls, Stanley Aronowitz, Douglas Noble, Kakie Urch, Henry Giroux, David Trend, and Robert Mikilitsch.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Cultural Studies and Pedagogy As Performative Practice: Toward an Introduction	p. 1
Education and the Crisis of the Public Intellectual
The Artist As Public Intellectual	p. 13
Beyond the Last Intellectuals	p. 25
Whither West? The Making of a Public Intellectual	p. 33
The Romance of the Intellectual and the Question of Profession	p. 49
Gendering Identities
Psychoanalytic Questions, Pedagogical Possibilities, and Authority: Encountering the "And"	p. 67
Man Trouble	p. 79
Toward a Polymorphous Perverse Curriculum	p. 89
And I Want To Thank You, Barbie: Barbie As a Site of Cultural Interrogation	p. 103
Race Matters
The Problem with Origins: Race and the Contrapuntal Nature of the Education Experience	p. 119
Trading Races: Majorities, Modernities; A Critique	p. 139
Race, Schooling, and Double Consciousness: The Politics of Pedagogy in Toni Morrison's Fiction	p. 153
The Marketplace and the Politics of Inequality
A Different Perspective on Educational Inequality	p. 179
Let Them Eat Skills	p. 197
Fighting Academic Agoraphobia: Self-Help Books for Cultural Studies' Fear of the Marketplace	p. 213
Pedagogy, Education, and Cultural Studies
Is There a Place for Cultural Studies in Colleges of Education?	p. 231
The Fine Art of Teaching	p. 249
Punk Pedagogy, or Performing Contradiction: The Risks and Rewards of (Anti-) Transference	p. 259
Contributors	p. 271
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