Teaching popular culture : beyond radical pedagogy / edited by David Buckingham.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Fantasies of empowerment? Radical pedagogy and popular culture / David Buckingham -- Pedagogy and authority : lessons from feminist and cultural studies, postmodernism and feminist pedagogy / Carmen Luke -- Butt jokes and mean-teacher parodies : video production in the elementary classroom / Donna J. Grace and Joseph Tobin -- Pedagogy, parody and political correctness / David Buckingham -- Dealing with feeling : why girl number twenty still doesn't answer / Sue Turnbull -- Provocations for a media education in small letters / Robert Morgan -- Beyond classroom culture / Chris Richards -- Tricks of the trade : on teaching arts and 'race' in the classroom / Phil Cohen -- Teaching for difference : learning theory and post-critical pedagogy / Bill Green.

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Teaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of ""critical pedagogy"" has come under attack, not only from theoretical perspectives such as feminism, anti-racism and postmodernism, but also in The Light Of Actual Classroom Experience. The Notion That Teachers Might ""liberate"" students through rationalistic forms of ideological critique has been increasingly questioned, not only on the grounds of its political arrogance, but also because of its ineffectiveness in practice. This book seeks to move beyo.

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