On one hand, Trend uses a critical approach to examine how cultural
work and pedagogy intersect within a range of discourses such as
Marxist, feminist, deconstructionist and postcolonial. Yet on the
other, he focuses on the use of specific examples of cultural
practice within and outside the classroom to emphasize the
importance of action as well as philosophy to bring about social
change. Trend provides a theoretical overview of the ideological
battles over texts and their discursive contexts and then analyzes
how cultural education has evolved in such settings as the school,
the university, and the community. He concludes with a discussion
of pedagogy and democracy which suggests a range of possible
resolutions.
Radical Epistemologies Culture and Pedagogy Theories of Oppositional Practice Living in the Material World Institutions and Economies Is There a Class in This Text? Writers, Readers and the Contest of Meaning Community and Agency The Ties that Bind New Discursive Spaces Reinventing the Public Spheres Changing the Subject - Pedagogy and Citizenship.
