Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by World War II, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence. This authoritative and reliable guide will prove accessible and fascinating to adults and adolescents.Youth as a unique group is a 20th century idea. The changes wrought worldwide by WWII, propelled adolescence to a status and identity that coincided with unparalleled economic growth. While developmental psychologists refined their theories of normal growth and maturation, society and the media were at work constructing youth as consumers,thereby liberating them from traditional family controls. An increasingly smaller world impinges mightily on the culture of youth. An international and inter-disciplinary roster of experts shed light on today's youth culture by exploring such topics as hip hop culture; punk culture; social justice movements; video games; political activism; language and identity; post-feminism; television; rites of passage; heterosexuality and homosexuality; race and ethnicity; social class; poetry and literature; visual art; conceptions of beauty and body image; academics; sports; drugs; families; refugee youth; the Internet; youth journalism; fashion; and violence. Adults and adolescents will find this authoritative and reliable guide accessible and fascinating.In addition to excellent essays, users will find a timeline of contemporaneous international develpments in youth culture. An introductory essay places youth in historical and contemporary contexts and underscores the notion that despite their power as consumers in a market-oriented world, youth are still seen―and see themselves―in contradictory ways. In short, this work brings new understanding to the complex and fluid phenomenon of youth culture.

Contemporary Youth Culture [2 volumes]: An International Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Politics & Social Sciences

Parmar, Priya

Steinberg, Shirley R.

Richard, Birgit

Social Sciences

Greenwood

Teens in European countries have a number of similarities. But, because Europe consists of such a diverse group of countries, differences do exist. These differences can be attributed to a variety of economies, geographies, and politics. American teens will find a special interest in the region, as it is the region in the world most similar to their own culture.
Each chapter covers a country in the region, and is written by a native of that country. The 12 countries profiled are Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey. Each chapter concludes with a resource guide providing print and electronic sources for additional research.

Teen Life in Europe (Teen Life around the World)

This book acknowledges the reality that in the late 1990s we live in a new racial context. The reassertion of white supremacy has created a social and educational world where many whites are angry, feel racially victimized, and stand ready to protect their privilege. Such conditions breed fear, hatred, and further violence. Any multicultural education that fails to recognize these conditions will follow the path of irrelevancy - a path too often taken by previous educational reforms. While concepts of cultural difference and diversity are certainly addressed in Changing Multiculturalism, one of its key features involves the analysis of positionality. How has one's race, ethnic, class, and/or gender consciousness been produced? What is the impact of this consciousness production on one's identity? In these ways, the book attempts to move beyond traditional texts in multicultural education. Both critical and practical, this book promises to engage the reader in a critically grounded multiculturalism.

Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum (Changing Education Series)

Education & Teaching

Kincheloe, Joe L.

Schools & Teaching

Open Univ Pr

Written from a cutting-edge perspective, Contextualizing Teaching offers a critical and constructive way of looking at the world and thinking about teaching and learning in schools. The book reviews a wide range of historical, philosophical, and social literature from a postmodern perspective, and the authors provide illustrative examples and case studies from personal experience, which illuminate the themes they discuss.

Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations

Slattery, Patrick

Longman

For corporate America, childrenand their parents' moneyare one of the most targeted groups in our consumer society. There are TV shows, movies, video games, toys, books, and restaurants that are specifically directed at childrenall of which has produced a kinderculture” run by marketing and advertising executives. Through a series of entertaining and insightful essays, Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood explores some of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of children, from Beavis and Butt-Head to Barney, from Disney movies to Nintendo.Contributors drawn from the fields of education, sociology, and popular culture analyze the profound effects and the pervasive influence of these corporate productions in a style parents, educators, and general readers will welcome. Arguing that the experience of childhood has been, with or without our consent, reshaped into something that is prefabricated, Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe bring home to readers the impact our marketing blitz” culture has on our childrenand on our beliefs about childhood.

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood (Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

Kincheloe, Joe

Westview Press

For corporate America, childrenand their parents' moneyare one of the most targeted groups in our consumer society. There are TV shows, movies, video games, toys, books, and restaurants that are specifically directed at childrenall of which has produced a kinderculture” run by marketing and advertising executives. Through a series of entertaining and insightful essays, Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood explores some of the icons that shape the values and consciousness of children, from Beavis and Butt-Head to Barney, from Disney movies to Nintendo.Contributors drawn from the fields of education, sociology, and popular culture analyze the profound effects and the pervasive influence of these corporate productions in a style parents, educators, and general readers will welcome. Arguing that the experience of childhood has been, with or without our consent, reshaped into something that is prefabricated, Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe bring home to readers the impact our marketing blitz” culture has on our childrenand on our beliefs about childhood.

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood

America is a corporatized society defined by our culture of consumerism. One of the groups most targeted by corporations is children and youth. TV, movies, radio, video games, toys, books, and fast food are all directed specifically at consumers under 18. By marketing directly to kids, advertisers have produced a "kinderculture." The first edition of Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood created a discourse that exposed the lack of understanding, education, and contextualization in this new children's culture. This new edition adds discussions on the icons that shape the values and consciousness of children, including hip hop, Disney, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Harry Potter, professional wrestling, Nickelodeon, Weekly Reader, video games, Barbie, McDonald's, and the Home Alone movies. Through entertaining and insightful essays, contributors drawn from the fields of cultural studies, communications, and education analyze the profound effects and the pervasive influence of these corporate productions in a style parents, educators, and general readers will welcome. Arguing that the experience of childhood has been, with or without our consent, reshaped into something that is prefabricated, Shirley Steinberg and Joe Kincheloe reveal to readers the impact our prefab, purchasing-obsessed culture has on our children-and on our beliefs about childhood.

Adolescent Culture, Knowledge, and Gender in Contemporary Film and Music (Critical Education Practice)

Pagano, Jo Anne

Falmer Pr

How do we reform schools in a way that will foster good work and produce smart workers? How does the post-Fordist economy change the purposes of schools? Joe Kincheloe answers these questions and more as he explores the political dynamics that connect schools and the economic system. In a unique take on the future of work and schooling, Toil and Trouble offers a provocative interpretation of the Perkins Act’s mandate to integrate academic and vocational education and provides a description of what a democratic school might look like. A must read for educators, labor leaders, business people and concerned citizens.

Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers, and the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education (Counterpoints)

Business & Money

Job Hunting & Careers

Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers

Introducing post-formal thinking for educators and students, the authors of this book use Albert Einstein as a metaphor for student's failure in today's schools. Blending biography and scholarship, they re-introduce cognition in an accessible way that makes ways of knowing make sense.

The Stigma of Genius: Einstein, Consciousness, and Education

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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Contemporary Youth Culture [2 volumes]: An International Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Teen Life in Europe (Teen Life around the World)

Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum (Changing Education Series)

Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood (Edge, Critical Studies in Educational Theory)

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood

Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood

Adolescent Culture, Knowledge, and Gender in Contemporary Film and Music (Critical Education Practice)

Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers, and the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education (Counterpoints)

The Stigma of Genius: Einstein, Consciousness, and Education