Critical Pedagogy, the State, and Cultural Struggle

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Henry A. Giroux, Peter L. McLaren
Marcombo, Jul 3, 1989 - Education - 299 pages
Schools have been traditionally defined as institutions of instruction, but the authors of this volume challenge that position in order to generate a new set of cultural categories and constructs through which the nature and process of schooling can be more appropriately understood. Giroux and McLaren develop a theory of schooling that takes into account not only the more traditional relationship between teaching and learning, but also the import of wider cultural dynamics such as language, mass culture, popular culture, the state, theories of readership, ethnographic research, and subcultural studies.
 

Contents

Education State and Culture in American Society
3
Can There Be a Liberal Philosophy of Education in
24
Schooling Populism
32
Schooling and the Family
50
The Ideological Turn
69
Curriculum in the Closed Society
92
Practical Teacher Education and the AvantGarde
105
SCHOOLING IDEOLOGY
123
Critical Pedagogy and
174
Childrens Literature as an Ideological Text
205
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Henry A. Giroux is Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio.

Peter L. McLaren is Associate Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio.

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