Rethinking the Concept of "The Popular" in Critical and Poststructural Social and Educational Theory.

Stout, Maureen

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Publication Date: 1992

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Rethinking the Concept of "The Popular" in Critical and Poststructural Social and Educational Theory.

Stout, Maureen

Educational Foundations, v6 n3 p51-66 Sum 1992

Examines the concept of popular culture in social and educational theory in the context of developing nations, particularly Latin America. Using a poststructuralist literary theory, the article elaborates a notion of the popular that offers a new conceptualization by incorporating a sense of competing identities and ideologies that form it. (SM)

Descriptors: Critical Theory, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Developing Nations, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Multicultural Education, Politics of Education, Popular Culture, Popular Education, Postmodernism, Social Theories

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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