Rethinking Popular Culture and Media

Posted by on April 18, 2011

Brand new from Rethinking Schools:

Rethinking Popular Culture and Media, edited by Elizabeth Marshall and Özlem Sensoy.

“Should be required reading for anyone dealing with issues of young people, media, and popular culture.”

– Sut Jhally, Professor of Communication, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Founder and Executive Director, Media Education Foundation

“Rethinking Popular Culture and Media is essential reading for all educators. Its gripping essays are written by teachers courageously helping students of all ages grapple with our media-saturated, commercially driven society.”

– Susan Linn, Harvard Medical School, Co-Founder and Director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood.

We live in an age when kids are bombarded by media messages that reinforce values of consumption, individualism, and competition.

Enter Rethinking Popular Culture and Media, a startling collection of articles that begins with the idea that the “popular” in classrooms and in the everyday lives of teachers and students is fundamentally political.

School teachers, scholars, and activists examine how and what popular toys, books, films, music, and other media “teach.” They offer strong critique, stories of resistance, and practical teaching strategies for educators at every level.

Read the introduction to the book.

Get Rethinking Popular Culture and Media now for only $15 (regularly $18.95). Order online or call toll-free and use discount code when ordering: 5BIPCD11

This special introductory offer expires May 1, 2011.

http://www.rethinkingschools.org/ProdDetails.asp?ID=9780942961485