Critical Theory

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Rereading Marcuse

Posted Thu, 12/31/2009 - 11:53 by Alisea McLeod

 For my holiday reading pleasure, I'm revisiting Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man published by Beacon Press in 1964. While reading, I came across this passage last night and thought it prescient.
 

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The Limits of Critical Theory

Posted Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:56 by Robert LeBlanc

 Peter McLaren writes:
  "Why shouldn't all aspects of culture be problematized?  To problematize culture does not guarantee that everything 'traditional' will be condemned or rejected... what it does mean is that we can recover from such traditional cultural texts and practices those aspects which empower and discard or transform those which don't." (McLaren, 1991)
 

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Hate Radio Music Query

Posted Sun, 08/30/2009 - 23:09 by Stephen DeGiulio

Colleagues,

I have noticed for years that most "hate radio" commentators use some kind of rock music as theme/introduction for their programs. Yet I have never been able to identify the group/musician. That is not surprising, since I am not well versed in rock or popular music, and have lived in places where I did not hear any American music for years.

My question is this--what is the connection of this music to the message of sexism, racism, subservience to power, and generalized hatred that these mercenaries of the culture industry promote?

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A Comment on Manifesto for a Left Turn by the Fifteenth Street Manifesto Group

Posted Sat, 05/16/2009 - 09:43 by Richard Kahn

Here is my comment to the Manifesto by Stanley Aronowitz, Jean Bond, William DiFazio, Harriet Fraad, Michael Pelias, Rick Wolff and that is currently making it around social networking circles. I wrote (http://manifesto15.org/node/25):

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Teaching/Learning about critical discourses

Posted Mon, 02/23/2009 - 15:39 by Andrew Churchill

Just wanted to give a heads up about a new book: Rocking Your World: The Emotional Journey into Critical Discourses, Sense publishers, 2008.

I had the pleasure of editing this book with Joe’s mentorship and contributions from numerous bloggers from this site.  Below, please find the requisite 250 word description as well as excerpts from Joe’s foreword and from the final chapter entitled, “A conversation amongst the authors.”  This last chapter was an online discussion amongst the authors about their experience writing the book and their perceptions about its potential values and uses.

Trends and Issues in Jamaican Education

Posted Tue, 01/06/2009 - 15:52 by EleanorHilty

 

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the hidden curriculum and educational substrate

Posted Fri, 10/10/2008 - 17:46 by aroundsquare

I haven't seen much written recently about the hidden curriculum, and I'm wondering if the topic may have fallen out of favor among critical pedagogues.  I still see it as highly relevant, in fact more than ever, as business and industry interests increasingly find ways to reach their tendrils into schools.  It's a little bit subtle because we're talking about tacit learning and socialization, but I'm interested in the process of unhiding the hidden curriculum, and helping teachers to become intentional about what is taught through it.

Does this resonate with any other forum users?

Please feel free to contact me at:  matt(at)aroundsquare(dot)com

or to explore some of my musings on the related blogs: 

http://www.sustainableeducation.com

or

http://www.educationalsubstrate.com

Either here on the forum, or over email, I'd be very happy to hear from anyone with similar interests.

Kind regards,

Matt

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