"The introduction and the last section of the book--dealing explicitly with the problems and potentials
of bringing cultural studies and critical theory together to study education--will be especially valuable."
-- Choice
Routledge Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
Although the disciplines of critical education and cultural studies have traditionally occupied separate spaces
as they have addressed different audiences, their concerns as well as the political and pedagogical nature of their
work overlap. Education and Cultural Studies brings members of these two groups together to demonstrate how a critical
understanding of culture and education can transgressively implement broad political change.
All written from within this framework of cultural studies and critical pedagogy, the contributors illuminate
the possibilities and opportunities open to practicing educators. In eschewing a romantic utopianism, and in assessing
the current climate of what is attainable and practical, this book teaches us how we can begin to translate and
perhaps even transform the vexing social problems that confront us daily.