Kate Moss wears a sexual pout in a Calvin Klein ad. Kurt Cobain’s suicide is held aloft as the archetypal example of teen alienation. What truth, if any, is contained in these depictions of today’s youth? What message about our children is being transmitted? In Channel Surfing, Henry Giroux turns his gaze to this barrage of media images and sees a message that sells our children short by damning them to the preconceived role of alienated outcast. Surfing from one channel of communication to the next, Giroux builds up a complex web of associations between characters in films, tarnished real-life teen idols, and sexualized presentations of nubile young clothing models to show us the dark vision of our children that rides the airwaves and inhabits the print media. Channel Surfing, Henry Giroux’s most fascinating and intriguing book yet, is sure to create controversy and debate at the same time that it calls for a more ethical attitude towards the prospect of our children’s future.

Channel Surfing: Race Talk and the Destruction of Today's Youth

Politics & Social Sciences

Henry A. Giroux

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capitalism that monopolizes the educational force of culture as it ruthlessly eliminates those public spheres not governed by the logic of the market. Giroux provides new theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analyzed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to the schools. A new introduction adds much to the well received first edition.The time for radical social change has never been so urgent, since the fate of an entire generation of young people, if not democracy itself, is at stake. Giroux argues that challenge gives new meaning to the importance of resistance, the relevance of pedagogy, and the significance of political agency.

Theory and Resistance in Education (Critical Studies in Education and Culture Series)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Praeger Publishers

The two sections of Channel Surfing , dealing respectively with youth culture and racial politics, may not appear to have much in common with each other at first. But Henry A. Giroux has an underlying class critique that binds them together. Young people are being barraged, he argues, by consumer culture messages that consistently identify them as alienated outcasts. They are also being assaulted by racial messages "targeting black youth as criminals while convincing working-class white youth that blacks and immigrants are responsible for the poverty, despair, and violence that have become a growing part of everyday life in American society." Although the balance between academic jargon and pop culture is somewhat precarious, Giroux's thesis is packed with the consideration of detail that marks useful cultural criticism.

Theory and resistance in education: A pedagogy for the opposition (Critical perspectives in social theory)

At the beginning of the new millennium, educators, parents, and others should reevaluate what it means for adults and young people to grow up in a world that has been radically altered by a hyper capitalism that monopolizes the educational force of culture as it ruthlessly eliminates those public spheres not governed by the logic of the market. Giroux provides new theoretical and political tools for addressing how pedagogy, knowledge, resistance, and power can be analyzed within and across a variety of cultural spheres, including but not limited to the schools. A new introduction adds much to the well received first edition. The time for radical social change has never been so urgent, since the fate of an entire generation of young people, if not democracy itself, is at stake. Giroux argues that challenge gives new meaning to the importance of resistance, the relevance of pedagogy, and the significance of political agency.

Avebury

Ideology, Culture and the Process of Schooling

Falmer / Temple University Press

"Giroux uses concepts such as ideology, culture, and power to clarify how schools and education serve the interests of a select few in society. . . . Giroux offers the educator a hope, and a means, for influencing change." Language Arts "Written with a verve and assurance. . . . There can be little doubt that this is an important book." Harvard Educational Review "this book [is] of immense importance. Giroux is a first-rate thinker struggling with theoretical problems of incredible difficulty. . . . [A] provocative book." Quarterly Journal of Ideology

Theory and Resistance in Education: A Pedagogy for the Opposition

Bergin & Garvey

Ideology Culture and the Process of Schooling

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture

Taylor & Francis Group

Counternarratives Cultural Studies and Critical Pedagogies in Postmodern Spaces

MICHAEL PETERS

Peter McLaren

Colin Lankshear

Routledge

Disposable Youth: Racialized Memories, and the Culture of Cruelty

Taylor&Francis

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