"Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword "Its focus on learning, education and pedagogy gives this book a particular relevance and significance in contemporary cultural studies. Its impressive authors, thoughtful structuring, wide range of perspectives, attention to matters of educational policy and practice, and suggestions for transformative pedagogy all provide for a compelling and significant volume."--H. Svi Shapiro, University of North Carolina–Greensboro Distinguished international scholars from a wide range of disciplines (including curriculum studies, foundations of education, adult education, higher education, and consumer education) come together in this book to explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. Readers will learn about a variety of ways in which learning and education intersect with consumption. This volume is unique within the literature of education in its examination of educational sites – both formal and informal – where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.
Author(s): Jennifer A. Sandlin, Peter McLaren
Edition: 1
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 305
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 10
Foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 18
Acknowledgments......Page 26
1 Introduction: Exploring Consumption’s Pedagogy and Envisioning a Critical Pedagogy of Consumption—Living and Learning in the Shadow of the “Shopocalypse”......Page 28
Part I Education, Consumption, and the Social, Economic, and Environmental Crises of Capitalism......Page 48
2 Rootlessness, Reenchantment, and Educating Desire: A Brief History of the Pedagogy of Consumption......Page 50
3 Consuming Learning......Page 63
4 Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue......Page 74
5 Teaching Against Consumer Capitalism in the Age of Commercialization and Corporatization of Public Education......Page 85
Part II Schooling the Consumer Citizen......Page 94
6 Schooling for Consumption......Page 96
7 Schools Inundated in a Marketing-Saturated World......Page 110
8 Exploring the Privatized Dimension of Entrepreneurship Education and Its Link to the Emergence of the College Student Entrepreneur......Page 124
9 Framing Higher Education: Nostalgia, Entrepreneurship, Consumerism, and Redemption......Page 135
10 Politicizing Consumer Education: Conceptual Evolutions......Page 149
Part III Consumption, Popular Culture, Everyday Life, and the Education of Desire......Page 162
11 Consuming the All-American Corporate Burger: McDonald’s “Does It All For You”......Page 164
12 Barbie: The Bitch Can Buy Anything......Page 175
13 Consuming Skin: Dermographies of Female Subjection and Abjection......Page 184
14 Happy Cows and Passionate Beefscapes: Nature as Landscape and Lifestyle in Food Advertisements......Page 196
15 Creating the Ethical Parent-Consumer Subject: Commerce, Moralities, and Pedagogies in Early Parenthood......Page 207
16 Chocolate, Place, and a Pedagogy of Consumer Privilege......Page 220
Part IV Unlearning Consumerism Through Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Sites of Contestation and Resistance......Page 228
17 Re-Imagining Consumption: Political and Creative Practices of Arts-Based Environmental Adult Education......Page 230
18 Using Cultural Production to Undermine Consumption: Paul Robeson as Radical Cultural Worker......Page 241
19 Beyond the Culture Jam......Page 251
20 Global Capitalism and Strategic Visual Pedagogy......Page 264
21 Turning America Into a Toy Store......Page 276
22 United We Consume?: Artists Trash Consumer Culture and Corporate Green-Washing......Page 286
List of Contributors......Page 291
Index......Page 297
