Postmodern Education
Politics, Culture, and Social Criticism
Published on 11. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
216 pages
978-0-8166-1880-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
"In Postmodern Education Aronowitz and Giroux are architects of the imagination, presenting essays of political, social, and cultural criticism aimed at altering the ways we understand the existing social order and act to change the conditions of our lives." Afterimage
"In Postmodern Education Aronowitz and Giroux are architects of the imagination, presenting essays of political, social, and cultural criticism aimed at altering the ways we understand the existing social order and act to change the conditions of our lives." Afterimage
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-1880-4 (9780816618804)
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11/1990
University of Minnesota Press
€57.20
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Persons
Stanley Aronowitz is professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of Science as Power, The Crisis in Historical Materialism: Class, Politics, and Culture in Marxist Theory, and Education under Siege with Henry A. Giroux.
Henry A. Giroux is professor of education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age, Teachers as Intellectuals, Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy, Schooling, Politics, and Cultural Struggle, and Education under Siege.
Henry A. Giroux is professor of education at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He is the author of Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Critical Pedagogy in the Modern Age, Teachers as Intellectuals, Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy, Schooling, Politics, and Cultural Struggle, and Education under Siege.
Content
Class, race, and gender in educational politics, Stanley Aronowitz; textual authority, culture, and the politics of literacy, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A.Giroux; postmodernism and the discourse of educational criticism, Henry A.Giroux; reading formations, texts, voice, and the role of English teachers as public intellectuals, Henry A.Giroux; border pedagogy in the age of postmodernism, Henry A.Giroux; why cultural studies?, Stanley Aronowitz; working class displacements and postmodern representations, Stanley Aronowitz; conclusion - postmodernism as politics - beyond difference as technological utopianism and cultural separatism, Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A.Giroux.