Postmodern education : politics, culture and social criticism / Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux

By:

Aronowitz, Stanley

Contributor(s):

Giroux, Henry A

Publication details: Minneapolis ; Oxford : University of Minessota Press, cop. 1991Description: 205 pISBN:

0816618798

Summary: Running against the 1960s has become nearly a sure-fire prescription for political success in the United States today. Whether the target is drugs, rock music, or the liberal arts curriculum in public schools, the new wisdom, sometimes called the “new puritanism,” seems to accord with everyday life, which is experienced by many as tougher, more competitive, and more dangerous. In a recent poll 86 percent of those surveyed agreed that drugs were the number one domestic priority in the United States. (Font: Presentació)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 02558	1	Available (Disponible)		1900001036

Acknowledgments -- 1. introduction: Class, Race, and Gender in Educational Politics -- 2. Textual Authority, Culture, and the Politics of literacy -- 3. Postmodernism and the Discourse 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

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