Postmodern education : politics, culture, and social criticism /
Aronowitz, Stanley
Postmodern education : politics, culture, and social criticism / Politics, culture, and social criticism Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux. - ix, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction : class, race, and gender in educational politics -- 2. Textual authority, culture, and the politics of literacy -- 3. Postmodernism and the discorse of educational criticism -- 4. Cultural politics, reading formations, and the role of teachers as public intellectuals -- 5. Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism -- 6. The punishment of disciplines : cultural studies and the transformation of legitimate knowledge -- 7. Working-class displacements and postmodern representations -- 8. Conclusion : postmodernism as politics - Beyond difference as technological utopianism and cultural separatism -- Index. "This book offers and opinionated analysis of today’s polemics surrounding the topic of education and society. Aronowitz and Giroux present a conceptual framework for charting the future directions educational theory and practice might take and continue the debate begun in their previous book, Education Under Siege, which was named one of the most significant books in education by the American Educational Studies Association in 1986."--Publisher's website.
0816618801 9780816618804 0816618798 9780816618798
90042908
Education--Aims and objectives--United States
Educational sociology--United States
Education--Political aspects--United States.
Postmodernism and education.
LA209.2 / .A78 1990
370.190973
Postmodern education : politics, culture, and social criticism / Politics, culture, and social criticism Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux. - ix, 205 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction : class, race, and gender in educational politics -- 2. Textual authority, culture, and the politics of literacy -- 3. Postmodernism and the discorse of educational criticism -- 4. Cultural politics, reading formations, and the role of teachers as public intellectuals -- 5. Border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism -- 6. The punishment of disciplines : cultural studies and the transformation of legitimate knowledge -- 7. Working-class displacements and postmodern representations -- 8. Conclusion : postmodernism as politics - Beyond difference as technological utopianism and cultural separatism -- Index. "This book offers and opinionated analysis of today’s polemics surrounding the topic of education and society. Aronowitz and Giroux present a conceptual framework for charting the future directions educational theory and practice might take and continue the debate begun in their previous book, Education Under Siege, which was named one of the most significant books in education by the American Educational Studies Association in 1986."--Publisher's website.
0816618801 9780816618804 0816618798 9780816618798
90042908
Education--Aims and objectives--United States
Educational sociology--United States
Education--Political aspects--United States.
Postmodernism and education.
LA209.2 / .A78 1990
370.190973