Routledge Handbook of Cultural Studies and Education

The Handbook of Cultural Studies in Education brings together interdisciplinary voices to ask critical questions about the meanings of diverse forms of cultural studies and the ways in which it can enrich both education scholarship and practice. Examining multiple forms, mechanisms, and actors of resistance in cultural studies, it seeks to bridge the gap between theory and practice by examining the theme of resistance in multiple fields and contested spaces from a holistic multi-dimensional perspective converging insights from leading scholars, practitioners, and community activists. Particular focus is paid to the practical role and impact of these converging fields in challenging, rupturing, subverting, and changing the dominant socio-economic, political, and cultural forces that work to maintain injustice and inequity in various educational contexts. With contributions from international scholars, this handbook serves as a key transdisciplinary resource for scholars and students interested in how and in what forms Cultural Studies can be applied to education. Review ‘Arriving at a hazardous historical juncture where forces of repression are consolidating worldwide, this remarkable collection of essays not only helps us gain a more granular purchase on important issues currently threatening our freedoms, but succeeds in fostering fecund contexts for the mobilization of dissent. An important book for these unsettling times.’ ―Peter McLaren, Distinguished Professor in Critical Studies, Chapman University and author of Pedagogy of Insurrection About the Author Peter Pericles Trifonas is a professor in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning at OISE, University of Toronto, Canada Susan Jagger is an assistant professor in the School of Early Childhood Studies at Ryerson University, Canada