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Faculty of Education seminar

4 May 2005

'Public pedagogy: It's more than media representations and popular T.V.', presented by Anna Hickey-Moody and Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen, Faculty of Education, Dr Valerie Harwood and Professor Jan Wright, University of Wollongong.

When: Wednesday 4 May, 1--2pm
Where: Room G25, building six, Clayton campus

Giroux (1999) contends that 'central to any viable notion of cultural studies is the assumption that culture and power must be organised through an understanding of how the political becomes pedagogical'.

Pedagogy in this instance is not only central to cultural politics and studies, but it is also situated in sites other than schools. To date, theoretical discussions of public pedagogy have focused on the politics of the content of popular cultural texts.

In this presentation we develop a notion of public pedagogy that deviates from the one espoused by Giroux and his focus on postmodernism and popular culture. Our theoretical framework is based on young people's engagements with media texts, their involvement with youth arts projects and the ways in which community members read youth arts projects and the artefacts they produce.

The localised theory of public pedagogy developed here will be employed to examine the ways in which Australian youth arts projects create and promote particular forms of subjectivities and social relations.

Further information is available at http://www.education.monash.edu.au/research/news/seminars/.