Promises to Keep: Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life

by Dimitriadis,Greg

• ISBN13: 9780415944755
• ISBN10: 0415944759
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2003-03-28
• Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

Summary

Public education at the beginning of the 20th century held the promise to produce a vigorous democratic public life. Quickly, though, powerful elites took control of public education to implement a "factory model" of schooling that has failed public life to date. The editors and a distinguished group of contributors work from the idea that we are at a turning point in the history of democratic public life and public education, and that we must re-imagine, re-design, and re-invent the current system.Promises to Keeplooks to the confluence of schooling, cultural life, and the public sphere to envision what education can and should be in the future.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Series Editors' Foreword	ix
Raymond Allen Morrow
Carlos Alberto Torres
Introduction	1	(38)
Dennis Carlson
Greg Dimitriadis
I. Education and the New Cultural Terrain
The Globalization of Capitalism and the New Imperialism: Notes toward a Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy	39	(38)
Peter McLaren
Ramin Farahmandpur
Civil Society and Educational Publics: Possibilities and Problems	77	(18)
Kathleen Knight Abowitz
Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools	95	(30)
Lois Weis
Michelle Fine
A Talk to Teachers: James Baldwin as Postcolonial Artist and Public Intellectual	125	(12)
Greg Dimitriadis
Cameron McCarthy
Promises to Keep, Finally? Academic Culture and the Dismissal of Popular Culture	137	(18)
John A. Weaver
Toby Daspit
II. Reimagining Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice
Stan Douglas and the Aesthetic Critique of Urban Decline	155	(12)
Warren Crichlow
Screening Race	167	(18)
Norman K. Denzin
Troubling Heroes: Of Rosa Parks, Multicultural Education, and Critical Pedagogy	185	(18)
Dennis Carlson
The Symbolic Curriculum: Reading the Confederate Flag as a Southern Heritage Text	203	(24)
Susan L. Schramm-Pate
Dennis Carlson
Urban Education, Broadcast News, and Multicultural Spectatorship	227	(18)
Suellyn M. Henke
``They Need Someone to Show Them Discipline'': Preservice Teachers' Understandings and Expectations of Student (Re)presentations in Dangerous Minds	245	(18)
Debra Freedman
Afterword: Schooling in Capitalist America: Theater of the Oppressor or the Oppressed?	263	(14)
Carlos Alberto Torres
Notes	277	(8)
References	285	(16)
Contributors	301	(2)
Index	303