Cultural pedagogy : art, education, politics / David Trend

By:

Trend, David

Series: Critical studies in education and culture seriesPublication details: New York: Bergin & Garvey, cop. 1992Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 178 pISBN:

0897892569

Summary: Currently there is no book which addresses the relationship between cultural work and critical pedagogy in the arts while simultaneously offering a theoretical discourse for establishing the basis for such a project. There is a need for a text(s) to provide a new discursive space to begin to make apparent the relevancies that teachers, artists, and other cultural workers share in their analyses of pedagogy and their engendering practices. Cultural Pedagogy fills this gap. The discourse of art/education/pedagogy which informs Trend's book is situated in a theoretical and historical context that serves to rewrite the relationship among cultural and pedagogical production as part of a broader vision that extends the principles and practices of human dignity, liberty, and social justice. In this view, the task of pedagogy is to deepen di verse democratic struggles which extend the ideological and material possibilities for self- and collective determination across a broad range of economic, social, and political spheres. In part, this means taking up pedagogy as a form of cultural politics that addresses how art gets produced, and how it comes to function in the broader community. Cultural Pedagogy avoids pedagogy as a form of cultural politics that refuses to engage its own sense of purpose and meaning. There are no claims to a discourse of origins, authenticity, or master narratives in this work. In fact, Trend is at pains to expand the multi-accentuality of cultural work and critical pedagogy to broader public arenas. At the same time, he offers the broadest parameters for redefining and reworking a cultural politics in which the notion of the pedagogical is subject to self-criticism, constantly reworked in order not to be appropriated and depoliticized, and made practical without being paraded as a recipe book. 1 use the term practical in a cautionary sense. The notion of the practical is not defined in Trend’s book in a merely instrumental sense; on the contrary, it is linked to a political imaginary that "suggests potential alliances and collaborations across divisive boundaries, and 'community' because in spite of internal hierarchies within [and between various groups], it nevertheless suggests a significant, deep commitment to what Benedict Anderson, in referring to the idea of the nation, calls 'horizontal comradeship' " The range and depth of Cultural Pedagogy brilliantly redefines the relationship between cultural work and pedagogy. It helps to reconstruct and illuminate diverse forms of pedagogical practice. Similarly, it addresses how the pedagogical as an organizing practice can serve to articulate a politics of solidarity within and among various cultural workers who engage in assorted forms of material and symbolic production in a number of critical public spheres. This book will give teachers access to a new language and range of pedagogical practices. At the same time, it will offer cultural workers in other public spheres an opportunity to deepen their understanding of what they have in common with those educators who work in schools. Trend' s attempt to redefine and expand the relationship between pedagogy and cultural work will bring together within and outside of the schools groups of cultural workers who can join in a new movement to deepen and extend the relationship among pedagogy, democratic culture, and the reconstruction of public life. This invaluable book needs to be read and reread by all those cultural workers interested in addressing the broad intellectual, social, and economic challenges facing us as we approach the twenty-first century. (Font: Pròleg)

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Series Foreword / Henry A. Giroux -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Radical Epistemologies -- 1. Culture and Pedagogy: Theories of Oppositional Practice : Marxism and History ; The Postmodem Condition ; The Culture of Cultural Studies ; Representing Difference ; Pedagogy and Political Strategy -- 2. Living in the Material World: Institutions and Economies : The Privatization of Culture ; Public Philanthropy and the Civic Trust ; Across the Great Divide: Artists and Educators ; Back to School ; The Fine Art of Business -- 3. Is There a Class in This Text? Writers, Readers, and the Contest of Meaning : Literacy or Literacies? ; The Published Word ; Misunderstanding Media ; Audience and Reception ; Government and Cultural Education ; Censorship and Free Speech -- 4. Community and Agency: The Ties That Bind : The Academy ; Art Worlds ; Schools ; A Town Meeting ; Beyond Borders ; New Community Forms -- 5. New Discursive Spaces: Reinventing the Public Sphere : Texts ; Institutions ; Social Formations and Identities -- 6. Changing the Subject: Pedagogy and Citizenship : The Conservative Assault ; Cultural Workers and Educational Activism ; From Resistance to Production ; Beyond Individualism ; Toward Democracy -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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