This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award. This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to devalue, demonize, and pathologize young women and men, leading names in the academy and youth communities argue that traditional studies of youth do not consider young people themselves. Engaging with today¿s young adults in formal and informal pedagogical settings as an act of respect, social justice, and transgression creates a critical pedagogical path in which to establish a meaningful twenty-first century critical youth studies.
Über den Autor Shirley R. (Hrsg.) Steinberg
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The Editor: Shirley R. Steinberg teaches in the Department of Integrated Studies at McGill University. She is the Director of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy. The founding editor of Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, Steinberg¿s most recent book is Media Literacy: A Reader, edited with Donaldo Macedo. She has recently finished editing Teen Life in Europe and, with Priya Parmar and Birgit Richard, The Encyclopedia of Contemporary Youth Culture, a Library Reference Award Winner. She is the editor of Multi/Intercultural Conversations: A Reader. With Joe L. Kincheloe she has edited Kinderculture: The Corporate Construction of Childhood and The Miseducation of the West: How Schools and the Media Distort Our Understanding of the Islamic World. She is co-author of Changing Multiculturalism: New Times, New Curriculum, and Contextualizing Teaching.
