Young People, Popular Culture and Education

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Written to support the Education Studies student with full pedagogical features throughout, this book explores the inter-relationship between the three fields and considers how these relationships have informed teaching practice, especially in the school context.

Chris Richards is Senior Lecturer in Media Arts Education at IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, UK. He was formerly Reader in Education at London Metropolitan University, UK, and has taught in London, at a variety of levels, since the 1970s.

Featured in the Times Higher Education Supplement textbook round-up. This is an extremely readable book, providing a very useful history and many references to texts that form part of the "canon" of cultural studies work... I already know to whom I will recommend this book- I can see a place for it on many people's shelves. -- Educational Review, 64:1 'Young People, Popular Culture and Education is a magisterial treatment of the multiple and complex intersections between cultural studies and education. With a particular and sustained attention to youth culture, Richards moves between theoretical and empirical material with sustained, provocative, and illuminating grace. While this text is particularly well suited for classroom use, it can be usefully read by scholars with a range of experience and backgrounds. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.' Greg Dimitriadis, Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA 'Chris Richards has written an accessible, moving, informative, and invaluable book connecting the various historical and contemporary strands that detail the complex and often shifting relationship among youth, popular culture, and education. At a time when youth are under assault like never before, this book provides an important narrative and set of categories to address the complex space of youth in the new millennium. This book should be read by everyone concerned about not merely the fate of young people, but also the power of education as a formative force for resistance, justice, and critical agency.' Henry Giroux, Cultural Studies and Global TV Network Chair in Communications, McMaster University, Canada 'An important contribution to academic debate... Richards deserves to be thanked by future generations of teacher trainees.' -- TES Magazine 'This highly accessible and lively book examines the significant relationship between popular culture, youth and education... Richards provides a convincing account of [popular culture's] significance as a tool to engage young people and understand the complexity and diversity of their lives and identities.' -- Children & Young People Now Reviewed in Changing English