About Cultural Studies and Education

An extensive field that in the last few decades has transformed many academic disciplines, cultural studies has yet to be fully considered by educators and education scholars. Cultural Studies and Education redresses this great shortcoming, bringing cultural studies and its implications for education to the fore.

The book aims to serve three main purposes. First, it is an introduction for educators and education researchers to some of the most important theoretical debates and analytic frameworks that have shaped the field of cultural studies. Second, it offers an introduction to and examples of three important areas of inquiry in which education and cultural studies overlap: gender and queer studies; postcolonial and ethnic studies; and popular culture and youth studies. Third, it illustrates how education scholars have dealt with the conceptual challenges of cultural studies and how education offers unique perspectives and contributions to the broader debates in the field.

A notably wide-ranging volume with articles by Cameron McCarthy, Michelle Fine, Henry Giroux, and others, Cultural Studies and Education is a timely introduction to cultural studies and the ways in which it can enrich both education scholarship and practice.

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Table of Contents for Cultural Studies and Education

Introduction: At the Crossroads of Education and Cultural Theory

PART ONE: Theoretical Context: Debating (Post)modernism

Introduction
What's the Use of Theory?
Gary Thomas
Research as Praxis
Patti Lather
Modern and Postmodern Racism in Europe: Dialogic Approach and Anti-Racist Pedagogies
Ramón Flecha

PART TWO: Gender and Queer Studies

Introduction
Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research
Dolores Delgado Bernal
Researching Dissident Subjectivities: Queering the Grounds of Theory and Practice
Kenn Gardner Honeychurch
Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire
Michelle Fine

PART THREE: Postcolonial and Ethnic Studies

Introduction
Cultural Negotiations: Puerto Rican Intellectuals in a State-Sponsored Community Education Project, 1948-1968
Cati Marsh Kennerley
American Indian Geographies of Identity and Power: At the Crossroads of Indígena and Mestizaje
Sandy Marie Anglás Grande
Rethinking Liberal and Radical Perspectives on Racial Inequality in Schooling: Making the Case for Nonsynchrony
Cameron McCarthy

PART FOUR: Popular Culture and Youth Studies

Introduction
Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy
Henry A. Giroux
Foot Soldiers of Modernity: The Dialectics of Cultural Consumption and the 21st-Century School
Paul Willis

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Publishing Information

Cultural Studies and Education:
Perspectives on Theory, Methodology, and Practice
Edited by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, Heather Harding, and Tere Sordé-Martí
©2004
ISBN 0-916690-41-5
$29.95 paperback, ORDER
296 pages

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