Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture

By Henry A. Giroux

In Disturbing Pleasures Henry Giroux demonstrates how his well-known theories of education, critical pedagogy and popular culture can be put to use in the classroom and in other cultural settings. Adding an entirely new dimension to his thinking about the cultural sites at which pedagogical practice takes place, Giroux illustrates how professors, school teachers and other cultural workers can appropriate what he refers to as a "pedagogy of cultural studies."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415909015
• ISBN13: 9780415909013
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

popular culture from an objective perspective at last!

Giroux puts the world of popular culture under the microscope from an educator's perspective and successfully deconstructs such entities as Disney and the Edison project. It is a must read for educators or anyone disenchanted with the state of pop-culture in america and its pervasive nature.