Popular Culture: Schooling and Everyday Life (Critical Studies in Education) - Softcover

Illuminating one of the most pervasive issues of our time, Popular Culture is the first book to link the importance and implications of popular culture with pedagogical practice. It shows how cultural forms such as Hollywood films, pop music, soap operas, and televangelism are organized by gender, age, class, race, and ethnicity, thus providing the contradictory text that both enables and disables emancipatory interest, so fundamental to the formation of self and society. What emerges is a redefinition of the very notion of popular culture.

HENRY GIROUX, Professor and Scholar in Residence in the School of Education at Miami University, Ohio, is known internationally for his work in critical pedagogy and has published eleven books on the subject. ROGER SIMON is Associate Professor in the Department of Curriculum at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He is currently working on his next book, Teaching Against the Grain: A Pedagogy of Possibility.