Education and Cultural Studies: Toward a Performative Practice

Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their work overlap. This text brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical understanding of culture and education can implement broad political change. Writing from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators.

Table of Contents:
Education and the Crisis of the Public Intellectual,1. Carol Becker -- The Artist as Public Intellectual ,2. Harvey J. Kaye -- Beyond the Last Intellectuals,3. David Theo Goldberg -- Whiter West? The Making of a Public Intellectual,4. Jeffrey Williams -- The Romance of the Intellectual and the Question of Profession,Gendering Identities,5. Sharon Todd -- Psychoanalytic Questions, Pedagogical Possibilities, and Authority: Encountering the And,6. Douglas Kellner -- Man Trouble,7. Deborah P. Britzman -- Toward a Polymorphous Perverse Curriculum,8. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- And I Want to Thank You, Barbie: Barbie As a Site of Cultural Interrogation,Race Matters,9. Cameron McCarthy -- The Problem with Origins: Race and the Contrapuntual Nature,10. Mike Hill -- Trading Races: Majorities, Modernities; A Critique ,11. Susan Searls -- Race, Schooling, and Double Consciousness: The Politics of Pedagogy in Toni Morrison's Fiction ,The Marketplace and the Politics of Inequality,12. Stanley Aronowitz -- A Different Perspective on Educational Inequality ,13. Douglas D. Noble -- Let Them Eat Skills, 14. Kakie Urch -- Fighting Academic Agoraphobia: Self-Help Books for Cultural Studies' Fear of the Marketplace, ,Pedagogy, Education and Cultural Studies,15. Henry A. Giroux -- Is There a Place for Cultural Studies in College of Education?,16. David Trend -- The Fine Art of Teaching,17. Robert Miklitsch -- Punk Pedagogy, or Performing Contradiction: The Risks and Rewards of (Anti-)Transference

About the Author :
Henry A. Giroux is author of Fugitive Cultures (1996), Counternarratives (1996), Disturbing Pleasures (1994), Border Crossings (1991), and co-editor of Between Borders (1993), all published by Routledge. Patrick Shannon is Professor of Education at Pennsylvania State University. He is co-editor of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies.

Review :
"...raises vitally important questions about the ultimate purposes of education." -- Educational Theory, Fall 1999. "The introduction and the last section of the book--dealing explicitly with the problems and potentials of bringing cultural studies and critical theory together to study education--will be especially valuable." -- Choice