The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.
Education & Youth
The current crisis offers an opportunity to question the ways in which children’s culture has been corrupted by rampant commercialization, commodification and consumption.
Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.
How is it possible to imagine a more equitable transformation in government and economics without a simultaneous transformation in culture, consciousness, social identities and values?
Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.
Academic Chronis Polychroniou interviews Henry Giroux, a professor in English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.
The “war on youth” not only attempts to erase the democratic legacies of the past, but disavows any commitment to the future.
While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the…
The Obama administration will fail badly if it does not connect the current financial and credit crisis to the crisis of democracy and its poisonous undoing by commanding…