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Postmodern education : politics, culture, and social criticism / Stanley Aronowitz and Henry A. Giroux.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aronowitz, Stanley.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Political aspects--United States.
- Educational sociology--United States.
- Educational sociology.
- Postmodernism and education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 205 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first book to offer a systematic look at the significance of postmodernist ideas for education.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Class, Race, and Gender in Educational Politics; 2. Textual Authority, Culture, and the Politics of Literacy; 3. Postmodernism and the Discourse of Educational Criticism; 4. Cultural Politics, Reading Formations, and the Role of Teachers as Public Intellectuals; 5. Border Pedagogy in the Age of Postmodernism; 6. The Punishment of Disciplines: Cultural Studies and the Transformation of Legitimate Knowledge; 7. Working-Class Displacements and Postmodern Representations; 8. Conclusion: Postmodernism as Politics-Beyond Difference as Technological Utopianism and Cultural Separatism; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816683505
- 0816683506
- OCLC:
- 171126531
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