Archive for February 2011

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] 3rd Edition Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood

Tue Feb 22 20:26:11 GMT 2011



Just published by Westview Press, contains essays by Doug Kellner and Henry Giroux...

Praise for Previous Editions:
â??Thoughtful and illuminating.â?? ?Contemporarry Sociology

â??An important contribution to the field of education as it is one of the few books that successfully makes the argument as to why (in very concrete terms) educators must pay attention to cultural studies.â?? ?Educational Research

â??A worthy study by all who work with children.â?? â??Educational Leadership

â??This is a brilliant book, a critical, interpretive undoing of North America and her children. We have waited too long for this analysis of child rearing, media-made children, and the postmodern family. This is the very best of critical pedagogy and cultural studies.â?? ?NNorman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

â??We have placed the lives of our children in the hands of media capitalists who are redefining and reshaping childhood. It is about time that cultural critics take this issue seriously. Steinberg and Kincheloeâ??s collection opens up the possibility of a rigorous and scholarly debate in what must be one of the most important issues of our time.â?? ?Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

â??A seminal contribution to our understanding of the role media and popular culture play in the socialization of children and youth in America... The picture that emerges from the book is alarming and terrifying, but also one that gives us some reason for optimism: terrifying, because it spells out, in considerable detail, the deleterious effects media culture is having upon our children, but hopeful in that it alerts us to the dangers our media poses for children and suggests ways of countering it.â?? ?Arthur Asa Berger, Author of Bloomâ??s Morning<


On the book:



This book reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that corporate marketing to youth has reshaped the experience of childhood into something that is prefabricated. Top scholars in education, sociology, and cultural studies contribute insightful essays that students, parents, and educators will find entertaining and disturbing. This third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including Twilight, Barbie, hip-hop, Disney, McDonald's, and many more.



Review




Praise for Previous Editions:
â??Thoughtful and illuminating.â?? ?Contemporarry Sociology

â??An important contribution to the field of education as it is one of the few books that successfully makes the argument as to why (in very concrete terms) educators must pay attention to cultural studies.â?? ?Educational Research

â??A worthy study by all who work with children.â?? â??Educational Leadership

â??This is a brilliant book, a critical, interpretive undoing of North America and her children. We have waited too long for this analysis of child rearing, media-made children, and the postmodern family. This is the very best of critical pedagogy and cultural studies.â?? ?NNorman K. Denzin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

â??We have placed the lives of our children in the hands of media capitalists who are redefining and reshaping childhood. It is about time that cultural critics take this issue seriously. Steinberg and Kincheloeâ??s collection opens up the possibility of a rigorous and scholarly debate in what must be one of the most important issues of our time.â?? ?Larry Grossberg, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

â??A seminal contribution to our understanding of the role media and popular culture play in the socialization of children and youth in America... The picture that emerges from the book is alarming and terrifying, but also one that gives us some reason for optimism: terrifying, because it spells out, in considerable detail, the deleterious effects media culture is having upon our children, but hopeful in that it alerts us to the dangers our media poses for children and suggests ways of countering it.â?? ?Arthur Asa Berger, Author of Bloomâ??s Morning<


Product Description



This book reveals the profound impact that our purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children and argues that corporate marketing to youth has reshaped the experience of childhood into something that is prefabricated. Top scholars in education, sociology, and cultural studies contribute insightful essays that students, parents, and educators will find entertaining and disturbing. This third edition is thoroughly updated with examinations of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of today's children, including Twilight, Barbie, hip-hop, Disney, McDonald's, and many more.










"We have placed the lives of our children in the hands of media capitalists who are redefining and reshaping childhood. It is about time that cultural critics take this issue seriously."

on Kinderculture, Lawrence Grossberg

http://www.amazon.com/Kinderculture-Corporate-Construction-Shirley-Steinberg/dp/0813344891/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1298402602&sr=8-1


[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]