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Combatting Consumer Madness
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Henry, Wayne Ian Morehouse, Mort Gardner, Susan T. |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | In his 2004 article entitled “Hannah Arendt and Jean Baudrillard: Pedagogy in the Consumer Society,” Trevor Norris bemoans the degree to which contemporary education’s focus can increasingly be described as primarily nurturing “consumers in training.” Quoting Henry Giroux, Norris argues that “...when public education becomes a venue for making a profit, delivering a product, or constructing consuming subjects, education reneges on its responsibilities for creating a democracy of citizens by shifting its focus to producing a democracy of consumers” (emphasis added) (Giroux, 173). He goes on to add that the consequences of such “mindless” consumerism is that it “erodes democratic life, reduces education to the reproduction of private accumulation, prevents social resistance from expressing itself as anything other than political apathy, and transforms all human relations into commercial transactions of calculated exchange.” |
| Starting Page | 177 |
| Ending Page | 194 |
| Page Count | 18 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 17 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.naaci-philo.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Waymosu-May-27.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.5840/tej2017111549 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
