Culture, Power and Education

Representation, Interpretation, Contestation

Peter Mayo

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Routledge
29 November 2024

Social & cultural history; Social theory; Moral & social purpose of education; Educational strategies & policy; Adult education, continuous learning

Series: Critical Interventions

Employing Gramscian conceptions of hegemony, this book demonstrates the inextricable links between politics, education, culture and power.

Based upon in-depth analyses of the theories of Antonio Gramsci, Lorenzo Milani, Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, and bell hooks among others, this book shows how many hegemonic social relationships are fundamentally educational relationships. In doing so, Mayo demonstrates how popular culture, education, museums, and fine art are both sites of hegemony and contestation.

This thought-provoking work will be of interest to students and scholars with an interest in sociology of art and culture, sociology of education, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, museum studies and social theory.

By: Peter Mayo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781032898476
ISBN 10: 103289847X
Series: Critical Interventions
Pages: 178
Publication Date: 29 November 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Introduction 1. Antonio Gramsci, Culture and Power 2. Don Lorenzo Milani and the Schools of San Donato and Barbiana 3. Paulo Freire, Praxis and Power 4. Henry Giroux's Politics of Hope 5. bell hooks: Cultural Production as the Practice of Freedom 6. Critical Pedagogy, Culture and Power 7. Museums as Cultural Politics 8. The Cultural Politics of Fine Arts 9. Popular Culture: Engaging the Popular Imagination and the ‘Holy Week’ Culture Epilogue

Peter Mayo is Professor of Sociology of Education and Adult Education and UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education at the University of Malta, Malta. His research focuses on the sociology of education, adult education, comparative education, social theory, critical theory and cultural studies. He is the author of Hegemony and Education under Neoliberalism: Insights from Gramsci (Routledge, 2015) and co-author of Learning and Social Difference: Challenges for Public Education and Critical Pedagogy (Routledge, 2007). He is also the editor of Education in Small States: Global Imperatives, Regional Initiatives and Local Dilemmas (Routledge, 2009) and co-editor of International Critical Pedagogy Reader (Routledge, 2015).

Reviews for Culture, Power and Education: Representation, Interpretation, Contestation

""As one of the leading researchers in critical theory and education, Peter Mayo brings us ever new insights following this tradition and ever new possibilities for change. His new book focuses on Gramsci's confrontation with hegemony and elaborates it further through Paulo Freire's revolutionary educational touch along with Mayo's own search for heterotopian alternatives. The old alternative of ""reform or revolution"" in no longer needed, while Žižek's question on the actuality of a critical matrix turns out to be a rhetorical one. Critical theorists and pedagogues of the world, unite!"" Eva D. Bahovec, Professor of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia ""In this well theorized and historically contextualized book, Peter Mayo explores the leading figures in critical education studies and shows how popular and elite culture are thoroughly embedded in wider social relations. His case studies reveal the symbiosis of culture, politics, hegemony, representation and resistance in different periods and countries."" Bob Jessop, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK