Popular Cultural Pedagogy

Popular Cultural Pedagogy, in Theory;

Or: What can cultural theory learn about learning from popular culture?

 

Call for Papers

Special issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory

Edited by Paul Bowman

 

Central to politicized academic projects such as cultural studies and politicized work in cultural theory and philosophy is a critique of the cultural power of institutions – pedagogical institutions in particular. In thinkers as diverse as Gramsci, Althusser, Derrida, Bourdieu, Rancière, Spivak, Hall, Giroux and way beyond, distinct – albeit often widely differing – theories of the social, subjective, cultural, ideological and political importance of pedagogical institutions and practices can be discerned as being central.

 

Culture has been theorized as pedagogy. In several languages and many contexts ‘culture’ and ‘education’ can be used interchangeably. This special issue of the journal Educational Philosophy and Theory seeks to explore the dual proposition that (1) pedagogy is central to politicized cultural theory, but that (2) it has been under-explored – both as constitutive of politicized cultural theory as such, and in relation to the question of what can be learned about pedagogy as such by studying popular culture accordingly.

 

So this issue asks: Given the often implicit but nevertheless demonstrable centrality of the themes of pedagogy to politicized cultural theory and philosophy: (1) What paradigms, models or theories of pedagogy are implied in popular forms of cultural theory and philosophy? And (2) What might or ought such popular theory itself (or themselves) be able to learn about learning from the popular culture it theorizes?

 

This issue of Educational Philosophy and Theory invites contributions which interrogate the notions of pedagogy that are active within specific forms of cultural theory and/or which offer new theorizations of pedagogy by way of analysis of popular cultural texts, practices, institutions or processes.

 

Submission: August 2011.

Publication: ejournal: Fall 2011; paper journal: 2012; book: 2013.

Paul Bowman: BowmanP@cardiff.ac.uk

 

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Dr Paul Bowman

Director of Postgraduate Research

Director: Race, Representation and Cultural Politics Research Group

School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies [JOMEC], Cardiff University

http://cardiff.academia.edu/PaulBowman