Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth

Beyond Schools

Edited by Benjamin Frymer; John Broughton and Matthew Carlin - Contributions by K Daniel Cho; Brian Friedberg; Douglas Kellner; Jessica Hochman; Tyson Lewis; Rob Maitra; Cameron McCarthy; Nikolina Nedeljkov; Jason Wallin; Justin Wilford and Emily Zemke

Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and popular culture have a growing impact on our youth, their identities, and everyday lives. In our highly mediated world, the nature of education has been dramatically transformed and taken way beyond the walls of our schools. Identities are formed, values learned, and relationships developed in the worlds of pop culture and media spaces. Each author brings a different lens to the study of education beyond the classroom. From the re-emergence of Che Guevara to the effects of an increasingly virtual culture, this collection critically attends to the changing nature of education and the impact of culture in the lives of youth. Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools raises significant questions and offers important insights for teachers, youth, scholars, and practitioners, alike.

Lexington Books

Pages: 316 •

978-0-7391-1953-2 • Hardback • July 2011 • $116.00 • (£75.00)

978-0-7391-6930-8 • eBook • July 2011 • $110.00 • (£75.00)

Subjects: Education / Research, Social Science / Customs & Traditions, Social Science / Popular Culture

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Beyond Schools

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Summary

Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools, edited by Benjamin Frymer, Matthew Carlin, and John Broughton, addresses the new cultural landscapes which increasingly "educate" our youth. With essays from both emerging and established scholars, the book explores the ways media and popular culture have a growing impact on our youth, their identities, and everyday lives. In our highly mediated world, the nature of education has been dramatically transformed and taken way beyond the walls of our schools. Identities are formed, values learned, and relationships developed in the worlds of pop culture and media spaces. Each author brings a different lens to the study of education beyond the classroom. From the re-emergence of Che Guevara to the effects of an increasingly virtual culture, this collection critically attends to the changing nature of education and the impact of culture in the lives of youth. Cultural Studies, Education, and Youth: Beyond Schools raises significant questions and offers important insights for teachers, youth, scholars, and practitioners, alike.

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Details

Lexington Books

Pages: 316 •

978-0-7391-1953-2 • Hardback • July 2011 • $116.00 • (£75.00)

978-0-7391-6930-8 • eBook • July 2011 • $110.00 • (£75.00)

Subjects: Education / Research, Social Science / Customs & Traditions, Social Science / Popular Culture

Table of Contents
Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Introduction
Part 3 Part 1: Identity/Subjectivity
Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Objects in the Mirror: Eduction, Cultural Studies, and the Function of Ideology
Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Beyond the Culture Industry: Spatial Theory and Adorno's Non-Identity
Chapter 6 Chapter 3: Liquid Identity: Cultural Exchange Between the Reader and the Text
Part 7 Part 2: Politics and Resistance
Chapter 8 Chapter 4: The Resurgence of Che Guevara in Popular Culture
Chapter 9 Chapter 5: Discourse and Media Spectacle in the Bush Administration: A Cultural Studies Analysis
Chapter 10 Chapter 6: To Interpost a Little Ease: Making Sense of Sport and Intellectual Labor in C.L.R. James' Beyond a Boundary and His Other Works
Part 11 Part 3: Youth
Chapter 12 Chapter 7: Sacred Profanities: Youth Alienation, Popular Culture, and Spirituality. An Interview with Donna Gaines
Chapter 13 Chapter 8: Constructions of Childhood
Chapter 14 Chapter 9: Discourse in Virtual Culture
Part 15 Part 4: Gender/Sex
Chapter 16 Chapter 10: "Are We Going to Prom or to Hell?" A New Heroine Emerges Through the Domination Conflict
Chapter 17 Chapter 11: Well Endowed with Meaning: Ethnicity and Masculinity in Teen Prostitution
Part 18 Part 5: Pedagogy
Chapter 19 Chapter 12: The Pedagogical Unconsciousness: Rethinking Marxist Pedagogy through Louis Althusser and Fredric Jameson
Chapter 20 Chapter 13: Insiders and Outsiders: Using Representations of Teachers in the British Press to Understand Teacher Identity
Chapter 21 About the Authors
Chapter 22 Index

Reviews
Reviews

This important work asks crucial questions on the professional territorialization of education, and more importantly, what to do about it. The book's contributors provide a lively and timely group of questions on the current state of education, where creativity is stifled in the name of practicality and institutionalized standardization is the norm. This book is a much needed reminder that the purpose of education itself is lost unless critical analysis and a cultural studies perspective help move education away from institutions, and back to an approach to humanities and social sciences that serve to foster independent thinking and crucial analysis in students.
— Brian Cogan, associate professor of communication arts at Molloy College and co-editor of Mosh the Polls: Youth Voters, Popular Culture an

There are anthologies and there are intellectual interventions. The intervention by Frymer, Broughton, Carlin, and their international and interdisciplinary collaborators affirms the rightful place of cultural studies in the study of schooling. Scholars and students from all disciplines who read this book will experience an education worth the name.
— Zeus Leonardo, Editor of Critical Pedagogy and Race, California State University, Long Beach

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