Henry A. Giroux is Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio. Peter L. McLaren is Associate Director at the Center for Education and Cultural Studies, Miami University, Ohio.

"It's imaginative, critical, powerful, and trenchant. The book is clearly on the cutting edge of educational theory." — David Purpel, University of North Carolina, Greensboro"It deals with substantive and urgent issues regarding the current debate over schooling, yet is surprisingly diverse and wide-ranging, both in the perspectives it articulates and the theoretical discourses which inform it. The international flavor here is a genuine asset. The issues discussed are very important and are among the key concerns facing contemporary schooling in our society. This book is definitely in the forefront of work on cultural approaches to schooling and society. Personally, I consider the approach the authors of this book have taken to be among the most advanced approaches in school research. It draws from anthropology, semiotics, Marxist theory, hermeneutics, etc." — Donaldo Macedo, University of Massachusetts, Boston

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Schooling, Cultural Politics, and the Struggle for Democracy Henry A. Giroux and Peter L. McLarenPart One: Schooling and Public Life 1. Education, State, and Culture in American Society Martin Carnoy2. Can There Be a Liberal Philosophy of Education in a Democratic Society? Samuel Bowles and Herbart Gintis3. The Politics of Common Sense: Schooling, Populism, and the New Right Michael W. Apple4. Schooling and the Family Miriam E. DavidPart Two: Rethinking Schooling as the Language Reform 5. Fixing the Schools: The Ideological Turn Walter Feinberg6. Curriculum in the Closed Society Philip Wexler7. Practical Teacher Education and the Avant-Garde Richard Smith and Anna ZantiotisPart Three: Schooling, Ideology and the Politics of Student Voice 8. Schooling as a Form of Cultural Politics: Toward a Pedagogy of and for Difference Henry A. Giroux9. Silencing and Nurturing Voice in an Improbable Context: Urban Adolescents in Public School Michelle Fine10. On Ideology and Education: Critical Pedagogy and the Cultural Politics of Resistance Peter L. McLarenPart Four: Popular Culture, Text, and Critical Pedagogy 11. Children's Literature as an Ideological Text Joel Taxel12. Reading Rock 'n' Roll in the Classroom: A Critical Pedagogy David R Shumway13. Popular Culture and Critical Pedagogy: Everyday Life as a Basis for Curriculum Knowledge Henry A. Giroux and Roger SimonNotes and References Contributors Index