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PublisherLang A&G International Academic Publishers, Peter

ISBN-100820461652

ISBN-139780820461656

eBay Product ID (ePID)2408537

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXxii, 178 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStepping Across : Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics

SubjectEducational Policy & Reform / General, Media Studies, Instruction & Study / General, General, Curricula, Teaching Methods & Materials / General

Publication Year2003

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorJulia Eklund Koza

Subject AreaMusic, Social Science, Education

SeriesIntersections in Communications and Culture Ser.: Global Approaches and Transdisciplinary Perspectives

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight9.9 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2002-152129

Dewey Edition21

Reviews«Julia Eklund Koza offers both a powerful corrective to popular culture distortions and a fresh critical lens through which to make sense of the music, art, and drama that surround and confound us. This is an informed citizens_ guide to living in the postmodern.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison) «_Stepping Across_ documents why we need work that trespasses disciplinary boundaries. It is insightful and provocative and shows how one can combine the structural and the poststructural in important ways.» (Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) «A tantalizing, thoughtful, and provocative book concerning music and popular culture. This analysis of aspects of the cultural politics of music education suggests solutions to important issues facing classroom teachers today.» (Estelle R. Jorgensen, Professor of Music, Indiana University and Editor of Philosophy of Music Education Review) «Julia Eklund Koza has written a thoughtful, passionate book about corporate influence over popular culture. She makes clear the importance of understanding how and to what effect our experience of the everyday world of schools, music, theater, and even our bodies is shaped by others in the service profit and power. _Stepping Across_ is an eye opener and a call to action that I hope will be read, argued about, and acted on by teachers, parents, and anyone interested in wrestling control of their destiny from the _powers that be_.» (Alex Molnar, Professor and Director of Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University), Julia Eklund Koza offers both a powerful corrective to popular culture distortions and a fresh critical lens through which to make sense of the music, art, and drama that surround and confound us. This is an informed citizens' guide to living in the postmodern. (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison) 'Stepping Across' documents why we need work that trespasses disciplinary boundaries. It is insightful and provocative and shows how one can combine the structural and the poststructural in important ways. (Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) A tantalizing, thoughtful, and provocative book concerning music and popular culture. This analysis of aspects of the cultural politics of music education suggests solutions to important issues facing classroom teachers today. (Estelle R. Jorgensen, Professor of Music, Indiana University and Editor of Philosophy of Music Education Review) Julia Eklund Koza has written a thoughtful, passionate book about corporate influence over popular culture. She makes clear the importance of understanding how and to what effect our experience of the everyday world of schools, music, theater, and even our bodies is shaped by others in the service profit and power. 'Stepping Across' is an eye opener and a call to action that I hope will be read, argued about, and acted on by teachers, parents, and anyone interested in wrestling control of their destiny from the 'powers that be'. (Alex Molnar, Professor and Director of Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University), «Julia Eklund Koza offers both a powerful corrective to popular culture distortions and a fresh critical lens through which to make sense of the music, art, and drama that surround and confound us. This is an informed citizens' guide to living in the postmodern.» (Gloria Ladson-Billings, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin, Madison) «'Stepping Across' documents why we need work that trespasses disciplinary boundaries. It is insightful and provocative and shows how one can combine the structural and the poststructural in important ways.» (Michael W. Apple, John Bascom Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison) «A tantalizing, thoughtful, and provocative book concerning music and popular culture. This analysis of aspects of the cultural politics of music education suggests solutions to important issues facing classroom teachers today.» (Estelle R. Jorgensen, Professor of Music, Indiana University and Editor of Philosophy of Music Education Review) «Julia Eklund Koza has written a thoughtful, passionate book about corporate influence over popular culture. She makes clear the importance of understanding how and to what effect our experience of the everyday world of schools, music, theater, and even our bodies is shaped by others in the service profit and power. 'Stepping Across' is an eye opener and a call to action that I hope will be read, argued about, and acted on by teachers, parents, and anyone interested in wrestling control of their destiny from the 'powers that be'.» (Alex Molnar, Professor and Director of Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University)

Series Volume Number6

Number of Volumes0 vols.

Dewey Decimal370.11/5

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisStepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power - each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza's most recent thinking, the studies examine interrelated constructs of race, gender, and social class as they materialize in local and specific settings. «No Hero of Mine: Disney, Popular Culture, and Education» (2001); «Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation» (1994); «Unhappy Happy Endings: Cultural Politics in the Broadway Musical Hit Once on This Island » (1997, revised 2001); «To Shave or Not to Shave: The Hair Removal Imperative and Its Implications for Teachers and Teaching» (2001) comprise the collection., Stepping Across: Four Interdisciplinary Studies of Education and Cultural Politics is a collection of four studies of education, privilege, and power - each of which explores relationships between formal schooling and larger cultural contexts. Representing some of Koza's most recent thinking, the studies examine interrelated constructs of race, gender, and social class as they materialize in local and specific settings. No Hero of Mine: Disney, Popular Culture, and Education (2001); Rap Music: The Cultural Politics of Official Representation (1994); Unhappy Happy Endings: Cultural Politics in the Broadway Musical Hit Once on This Island (1997, revised 2001); To Shave or Not to Shave: The Hair Removal Imperative and Its Implications for Teachers and Teaching (2001) comprise the collection.

LC Classification NumberLC196.5.K67 2003