Shirley R. Steinberg
Auteur de Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction Of Childhood
A propos de l'auteur
Shirley R. Steinberg is the director of The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy at McGill University and has been Research Professor at the University of Barcelona. Her most recent books include: Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia; 19 Urban Questions Teaching in the City; afficher plus Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader; Christotainment: Selling Jesus Through Popular Culture (Westview Press); and the award-winning Contemporary Youth Culture Encyclopedia. afficher moins
Œuvres de Shirley R. Steinberg
Thirteen Questions: Reframing Education's Conversation (1992) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
The Miseducation of the West: How Schools and the Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islamic World (Reverberations:… (2004) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Christotainment: Selling Jesus through Popular Culture (2009) — Directeur de publication — 8 exemplaires
Contextualizing Teaching: Introduction to Education and Educational Foundations (1999) 7 exemplaires
The Post-Formal Reader: Cognition and Education (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, V. 912.) (1999) 5 exemplaires
Teaching Against Islamophobia (Counterpoints: Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education) (2010) 4 exemplaires
Students as Researchers: Creating Classrooms that Matter (The Falmer Press Teachers' Library Series, 15) (1998) 4 exemplaires
The Miseducation of the West 1 exemplaire
Rethinking Intelligence: Confronting Psychological Assumptions About Teaching and Learning (1999) 1 exemplaire
Pensar Queer Sexualidade, Cultura e Educação 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Literacies of Power: What Americans Are Not Allowed to Know (1994) — Commentary, quelques éditions — 44 exemplaires
Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum (Changing Education Series) (1997) — quelques éditions — 8 exemplaires
Toil and Trouble: Good Work, Smart Workers, and the Integration of Academic and Vocational Education (Counterpoints) (2000) — Introduction — 3 exemplaires
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Some of the authors tie the prejudice to colonialism's need to justify its repression of native cultures. Some of it goes back to the Crusades - which was a time, by the way, when in Islamic countries Muslims, Christians, and Jews were living peacefully together.
One chapter that was particularly good talked about the depiction of the Moors, and how many Westerners insist the Moors were white or Semitic, when clearly the historical accounts indicate they were dark-skinned Berbers. The Arabs always used the term Moor to apply to dark or black-skinned people.
I certainly don't agree with everything in the book, but overall it is a healthy corrective to a still-dominant paradigm that white European culture is always superior.… (plus d'informations)