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Consuming Schools: Commercialism and the End of Politics
Trevor Norris
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Paperback. Through Hannah Arendt's account of human labour, work, and action, and Jean Baudrillard's consideration of the visual character of consumerism, Norris examines how school commercialism has been critically engaged by in-class activities such as media literacy programs and educational policies regulating school-business partnerships. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 380.
The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects. Consuming Schools describes the impact of consumerism on politics and education and charts the increasing presence of commercialism in the educational sphere through an examination of issues such as school-business partnerships, advertising in schools, and corporate-sponsored curriculum. First linking the origins of consumerism to important political and philosophical thinkers, Trevor Norris goes on to closely examine the distinction between the public and the private sphere through the lens of twentieth-century intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard. Through Arendt's account of the human ... Read more
The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects. Consuming Schools describes the impact of consumerism on politics and education and charts the increasing presence of commercialism in the educational sphere through an examination of issues such as school-business partnerships, advertising in schools, and corporate-sponsored curriculum. First linking the origins of consumerism to important political and philosophical thinkers, Trevor Norris goes on to closely examine the distinction between the public and the private sphere through the lens of twentieth-century intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard. Through Arendt's account of the human ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
379g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442611078
SKU
V9781442611078
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About Trevor Norris
Trevor Norris is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Education at Brock University.
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