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)

Politics & Social Sciences

Steinberg, Shirley R.

Social Sciences

Greenwood

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

The Stigma of Genius: Einstein and Beyond Modern Education

Taking as their metaphor the young Albert Einstein, who as a child was alternately ridiculed and dismissed by his teachers as an inattentive and unteachable student, three of our nation's noted educators attack the entire philosophy which has guided our public schools throughout the twentieth century, a system of education and thinking essentially grounded in the Newtonian-Cartesian concepts of a static world. The authors decry a system which is governed by a work-ethic determined to turn out students much as one uses cookie-cutter molds or industrial lathes. They show how these educational concepts have deadened the consciousness of generations of children and led to American public schools with teachers who too often "deny the role of passion and emotion in their professional lives." The Stigma of Genius speaks to all of us - teachers, students, parents, citizens. In 1938 Einstein wrote "knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive in the consciousness of men." This is a manifesto for an end to deadening convention, corporate bureaucracy, and standardized students in our public schools; and for a restoration of the flame of curiosity, diversity, and value systems, based not on a pre-ordained order, but in the heart and mind of students with the freedom to think and question for themselves.

Tippins, Deborah J.

Philosophy

Hollowbrook Pub

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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

The Stigma of Genius: Einstein and Beyond Modern Education