How and why do the ideas of the nineteenth-century critic and educator Matthew Arnold continue to influence education today?
Category Archives: Cultural Studies
Representing youth culture
A new museum, an online archive and a film season offer some great resources for researching – and teaching about – youth culture. Taken together, they raise some interesting questions about who represents youth culture, and how we define it.
Teaching Culture: The Missionary Position
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.
The changing currency of ‘cultural capital’
The English schools inspectors are apparently looking for schools to teach ‘cultural capital’. But what does cultural capital mean, and how is it changing?
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..
Cultural Studies and the evasion of education
A postscript to my blogs about Raymond Williams: what happened to the educational dimensions of Cultural Studies?
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?
Revisiting youth subcultures
Looking back at Dick Hebdige’s classic book Subculture: The Meaning of Style, on the anniversary of its first publication forty years ago.
