Consuming Schools

Commercialism and the End of Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID19939713
AuthorsTrevor Norris (0000-0002-4695-1202, corresponding author)
Year2010
Publication date2010-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueConsuming Schools (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781442690257
OpenAlexW367969938
Open LibraryOL34715440M
ISBN9781442690257
LanguageEN
Citations received13

The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects. Consuming Schools describes the impact of consumerism on politics and education and charts the increasing presence of commercialism in the educational sphere through an examination of issues such as school-business partnerships, advertising in schools, and corporate-sponsored curriculum.First linking the origins of consumerism to important political and philosophical thinkers, Trevor Norris goes on to closely examine the distinction between the public and the private sphere through the lens of twentieth-century intellectuals Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard. Through Arendt's account of the human activities of labour, work, and action, and the ensuing eclipse of the public realm and Baudrillard's consideration of the visual character of consumerism, Norris examines how school commercialism has been critically engaged by in-class activities such as media literacy programs and educational policies regulating school-business partnerships

Aesthetics · Art · Commercialism · Consumerism · Environmental ethics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Law · Philosophy · Business and education · Commercialism in schools · Consommation (Économie politique) · Consumers · Consumption (Economics) · Education · Industrie et éducation · Political aspects · Publicité dans les écoles · Social aspects

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