Title: Schooling in the light of popular culture /
Authors: Farber, Paul, 1935-; Provenzo, Eugene F.; Holm, Gunilla.
Publisher: State University of New York Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Education Social aspects United States; Popular culture United States; Education in popular culture United States.
Abstract: Annotation
Contents: Adolescent freedom and the cinematic high school / Paul Farber and Gunilla Holm -- Education, rock-and-roll, and the lyrics of discontent / Gunilla Holm and Paul Farber -- Learning in style : the portrayal of schooling in Seventeen magazine / Gunilla Holm -- Reader's Digest and the mythology of schooling / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., and Andrea Ewart -- The image of the high school dropout in the twentieth-century popular press / Jeanne Ellsworth and Robert B. Stevenson -- New York Times's coverage of educational reform : the 1950s and 1980s compared / Ohkee Lee and Michael Salwen -- A brotherhood of heroes : the charismatic educator in recent American movies / Paul Farber and Gunilla Holm -- Conformity, conflict, and curriculum : film images of boys' preparatory schools / Gary N. McCloskey -- Miracle working and the image of the exceptional student / Arlene Sachs and Gary N. McCloskey -- Carnival, pop culture and the comics : radical political discourse / Olga Skorapa -- Educational cartoons as popular culture : the case of the Kappan / Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr., and Anthon Beonde -- Education 1st! : using television to promote the schools / Lynn Nations Johnson and Gunilla Holm.