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. This text brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can implement broad political change. Writing from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators.
Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audie...
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. This text brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can implement broad political change. Writing from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators.
Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audie...
In his quest to become famous, Cisco the Parrot tests his skills on the show "Show Biz," and suffers a humiliating defeat in Anything Goes Wrestling at the hands of two little cockroaches.
In his quest to become famous, Cisco the Parrot tests his skills on the show "Show Biz," and suffers a humiliating defeat in Anything Goes Wrestling a...
In his new book, popular author Patrick Shannon examines reading as agencywhy reading critically is essential to civic engagement and a healthy democracy. We follow the author on a journey of self discovery as he practices ''wide-awake reading'' with a variety of everyday texts, from radio programs to legal documents to more traditional books and magazines. Shannon demonstrates how we can and must engage in close reading of the world around us and how teachers, in turn, can help their students make meaning from the information in their lives that often appears to move at warp speed. Reading...
In his new book, popular author Patrick Shannon examines reading as agencywhy reading critically is essential to civic engagement and a healthy democr...
In this book Shannon s major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each.
In this new edition, Shannon provides an update of the ideological struggles to name and respond to poverty through the design,...
In this book Shannon s major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling how i...
In this book Shannon's major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schooling-how it is theorized, how it is organized, and how it runs. Competing ideological representations of poverty underlie school assumptions about intelligence, character, textbook content, lesson formats, national standards, standardized achievement tests, and business/school partnerships and frame our considerations of each.
In this new edition, Shannon provides an update of the ideological struggles to name and respond to poverty...
In this book Shannon's major premise remains the same as his 1998 Reading Poverty: Poverty has everything to do with American public schoo...
Letters From Wheatfield - Second Edition. All the original stories plus twenty new zany reports on life in Wheatfield, Montana. What do you do for fun if you live in a small town, dauntingly far from the nearest city's amusements? Upon what resources do you draw to spice up your existence? "Letters From Wheatfield" provides the answer-and it isn't always pretty. In this new edition, cousin Amelia's book on Wheatfield has been published under the title, "Little Nut House on the Prairie," and the folks love it. They can't wait for it to be made into a movie, and ranger Ned wants Brad Pitt to...
Letters From Wheatfield - Second Edition. All the original stories plus twenty new zany reports on life in Wheatfield, Montana. What do you do for fun...
