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Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education
Di Silberman-Keller
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Description for Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education
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Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular culture is capable of educating and that education shares many characteristics with popular ... Read more
Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education is the first international and multidisciplinary effort to coalesce knowledge on education and popular culture studied as broad phenomena and not as a collection of case studies. In this volume, popular culture has been thematically treated as it appears in a variety of media, including movies, digital games, advertising, television, popular songs, and the internet. The book considers education in both formal and informal settings, and looks critically at the accepted dichotomy between education and popular culture. It argues that popular culture is capable of educating and that education shares many characteristics with popular ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Counterpoints
Condition
New
Weight
546g
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781433102318
SKU
V9781433102318
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Di Silberman-Keller
The Editors: Diana Silberman-Keller has engaged in a second Ph.D. degree program on communication, film, and internet at the European Graduate School at Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She has participated in seminars with Giorgio Agamben, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Siegfried Zielinski, Barbara Hammer and Wolfgang Schirmacher, and Werner Hamacher and Hubertus Von Ameluxen. She has submitted her dissertation, Mirrors' Triptic ... Read more
Reviews for Mirror Images: Popular Culture and Education
Few books capture as clearly the critical place and influence of popular culture on education. Silberman-Keller, Bekerman, Giroux, and Burbules have launched a collaboration that helps educators understand the learning process outside the confines of classroom pedagogy but provides the conditions of possibility for improving schools. Its expert contributors travel through social experiences that no educator can take for granted ... Read more