Overview
Education in Popular Culture explores what makes schools, colleges, teachers and students an enduring focus for a wide range of contemporary media. What is it about the school experience that makes us wish to relive it again and again? The book provides an overview of education as it is represented in popular culture, together with a framework through which educators can interpret these representations in relation to their own professional values and development. The analyses are contextualised within contemporary, historical and ideological frameworks, and make connections between popular representations and professional and political discourses about education. Through its examination of film, television, popular lyrics and fiction, this book tackles educational themes that recur in popular culture, and demonstrates how they intersect with debates concerning teacher performance, the curriculum and young people’s behaviour and morality. Chapters explore how experiences of education are both reflected and constructed in ways that sometimes reinforce official and professional educational perspectives, and sometimes resist and oppose them. Education in Popular Culture will stimulate critical reflection on the popular myths and professional discourses that surround teachers and teaching. It will serve to deepen analyses of teaching and learning and their associated institutional and societal contexts in a creative and challenging way.
Full Product Details
Author: Roy Fisher (University of Huddersfield, UK) ,
Ann Harris (University of Huddersfield, UK) ,
Christine Jarvis (University of Huddersfield, UK)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.20cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.410kg
ISBN: 9780415332422
ISBN 10: 0415332427
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 02 May 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
.. .a fine forensic analysis of the multiple and contradictory ways in which popular culture frames and represents education. All in all, I highly recommend this text for either undergraduate or graduate level courses in either popular culture or cultural foundations of education. Teachers College Record (February 2009),
""...a fine forensic analysis of the multiple and contradictory ways in which popular culture frames and represents education."" ""All in all, I highly recommend this text for either undergraduate or graduate level courses in either popular culture or cultural foundations of education."" Teachers College Record (February 2009),
.. .a fine forensic analysis of the multiple and contradictory ways in which popular culture frames and represents education. All in all, I highly recommend this text for either undergraduate or graduate level courses in either popular culture or cultural foundations of education. Teachers College Record (February 2009), .. .a fine forensic analysis of the multiple and contradictory ways in which popular culture frames and represents education. All in all, I highly recommend this text for either undergraduate or graduate level courses in either popular culture or cultural foundations of education. Teachers College Record (February 2009), . ..a fine forensic analysis of the multiple and contradictory ways in which popular culture frames and represents education. All in all, I highly recommend this text for either undergraduate or graduate level courses in either popular culture or cultural foundations of education. Teachers College Record (February 2009),
Author Information
Roy Fisher, Ann Harris, Christine Jarvis
