The attempt to civilize the uncultured masses is coming back into style. I look back to the Leavisite approach to popular culture, and its place in the history of English teaching.
Category Archives: criticism
Revisiting ‘Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility’
Revisiting a key moment in the early history of media education in the UK, and its legacy in print..
Raymond Williams on Culture and Education 3: Communications
Revisiting three key texts from sixty years ago: what do they have to say to us today?
Raymond Williams on Culture and Education 2: The Long Revolution
Revisiting three key texts from sixty years ago: what do they have to say to us today?
Raymond Williams on culture and education 1: ‘Culture and Society 1780-1950’
Revisiting three key texts, published sixty years ago. What do they have to say to us today?
Educating popular taste: revisiting ‘The Popular Arts’
Hall and Whannel’s book is a landmark in the history of media education in the UK. But something’s missing from the republished edition: it’s education!
Going critical
Is it really enough for students to be ‘critical’ of media? Some thoughts about the continuing need for critical thinking – and critical action – in media education.
David Buckingham 