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Teaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of "critical pedagogy" has come under attack, not only from theoretical perspectives such as feminism, anti-racism and postmodernism, but also in The Light Of Actual Classroom Experience. The Notion That Teachers Might "liberate" students through rationalistic forms of ideological critique has been increasingly questioned, not only on the grounds of its political arrogance, but also because of its ineffectiveness in practice. This book seeks to move beyond the limitations of these debates, and to explore positive alternatives. It contains a broad international range of contributions, covering practice from primary schools right through to higher education. The authors draw on diverse perspectives, including post structuralism, post modernism, cultural studies, anti-racism and feminism; yet they share a willingness to challenge radical orthodoxies, and to offer positive practical alternatives.

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Table of contents : Introduction - Fantasies of Empowerment? Radical Pedagogy and Popular Culture, David Buckingham; Pedagogy and Authority - Lessons from Feminist and Cultural Studies, Postmodernism and Feminist Pedagogy, Carmen Luke; Butt-Jokes and Mean-Teacher Parodies - Video Production in the Elementary Classroom, Donna Grace and Joseph Tobin; Pedagogy, Parody and "Political Correctness", David Buckingham; Dealing With Feeling - Why Girl Number Twenty Still Doesn't Answer, Sue Turnbull; Provocations for a Media Education in Small Letters, Bob Morgan; Beyond Classroom Culture, Chris Richards; Tricks of the Trade - On Teaching Arts and "Race" in the Classroom, Phil Cohen; Teaching for Difference - Learning Theory and Post- Critical Pedagogy, Bill Green.

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The book raises more questions than it answers, but the questions are terrific i highly recommend this book and hope it stimulates discussion among teacher educators, cultural studies, media studies and popular culture students. |i qualitative studies in education, 12(6)

A thoughtful and provocative account of the state of play in media education. |i peter mcluskie, screen