دانلود کتاب Promises to Keep: Cultural Studies, Democratic Education, and Public Life

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Book Cover
Half-Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction
Promises to Keep
Education and the New Progressive Cultural Politics
Marxism and Post-Marxism
Postcolonialism and the Project of Un-thinking Eurocentrism
The Troubling of Identity
Community in a Postmodern Age
Cultural Studies and the New Progressivism
The Reconceptualist Curriculum Movement
Critical Pedagogy
Social Foundations of Education
Cultural Studies and Education
Chapters
I. Education and the New Cultural Terrain
1 The Globalization of Capitalism and the New Imperialism: Notes toward a Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy
Globalization and Capitalism
The McLaw of Value
The Failure of the Free Market
Global Capitalism as the New Imperialism
The Corporatization of Public Education
Corporate Philanthropy and the Neoliberal Agenda
Democracy in Crisis: Decoupling Democracy from Capitalist Development
Toward a Revolutionary Critical Pedagogy
Teachers as Intellectual Workers
Class: The Outmoded or Forgotten Antagonlsm
Conclusion
2 Civil Society and Educational Publics: Possibilities and Problems
What Is Civil Society?
Civil Society and Educational Publics
Limitations and Dangers
3 Extraordinary Conversations in Public Schools
Social Spaces for Challenge
Pushing the Borders of Gender and Race
Baring Secrets
Distancing
An Eighth Grade Group
Contesting Social Stereotypes
Creating an Intellectual and Ethical Community across Borders
December through February: The Melting, and Then Partial Restoration, of Privilege
March through April: Playing with Power, Shifting, and Reversals
April through June: Coalitions, Standpoints, Speaking Truth to Power…Preparing for the “Real World”
Conclusion
4 A Talk to Teachers: James Baldwin as Postcolonial Artist and Public Intellectual
Baldwin in the Village
Final Thoughts
5 Promises to Keep, Finally? Academic Culture and the Dismissal of Popular Culture
A Correspondence Theory of Reality or the Academy’s Numb Thesis
The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Again): Adorno, Horkheimer, and Their Legacy in the Cultural Studies of Education
Toward an Alternative Approach to Academic Work and Popular Culture
II. Reimagining Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice
6 Stan Douglas and the Aesthetic Critique of Urban Decline
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7 Screening Race
Race in the Hood
The Black Arts Movement
A Cinema of Racial Violence
A Mimetic Realism
Realism and the Didactic Protest Film
An Aesthetic of Color and Critical Race Theory
Ethics and an Antiaesthetic
Antiaesthetics and Cinematic Practices
Implementing the Antiaesthetic
Two Case Studies
In Conclusion
8 Troubling Heroes: Of Rosa Parks, Multicultural Education, and Critical Pedagogy
Monumentalist History and Parks as a “Founding Mother”
Critical Histories: Setting the Record Straight
Effective History: Rosa Parks the Floating Signifier
Conclusion
9 The Symbolic Curriculum: Reading the Confederate Flag as a Southern Heritage Text
The Confederate Flag and the Battle over Southern Heritage
The New Right Discourse of “Whiteness”
The Progressive Response: From Critique to Reappropriation of the Confederate Flag
The Corporate and State Discourse of the “New South”
Teaching the Confederate Flag Controversy
Conclusion
10 Urban Education, Broadcast News, and Multicultural Spectatorship
Fashioned by the Text Itself: How Is the Story Framed?
Fashioned by Institutional Contexts: What Are the Parameters of News Media?
Fashioned by Technology: How Does the Videotape Construct the Story?
Conclusion
11 “They Need Someone to Show Them Discipline”: Preservice Teachers’ Understandings and Expectations of Student (Re)presentations in Dangerous Minds
A Multiperspectival Analysis
Representations of Students in Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds: Production History
Dangerous Minds: Textual Analysis—Representations of Students
Focus Group Responses
Acceptance and Alignment
Misconception and Inexperience
Renegotiation, Rereading, and Rearticulation
Concluding Thoughts
Afterword Schooling in Capitalist America: Theater of the Oppressor or the Oppressed?
Cast of Characters
The Place: West Los Angeles; The Time: Winter 2001
Getting to Know Some of the Characters
In the Faculty Lounge
In Pablo’s Classroom
After the Play: Critical Commentaries
Notes
References
Contributors
Index