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TRANSGRESSIONS: CULTURAL STUDIES AND EDUCATION
Volume 64
Series Editor:
Shirley R. Steinberg,
McGill University, Canada
Founding Editor:
Joe L. Kincheloe (1950–2008)
The Paulo and Nita Freire International
Project for Critical Pedagogy
Editorial Board
Jon Austin,
University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Norman Denzin,
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, USA
Rhonda Hammer,
University of California Los Angeles, USA
Nikos Metallinos,
Concordia University, Canada
Christine Quail,
McMaster University, Canada
Ki Wan Sung,
Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
This book series is dedicated to the radical love and actions of Paulo Freire, Jesus
“Pato” Gomez, and Joe L. Kincheloe.
TRANSGRESSIONS: CULTURAL STUDIES AND EDUCATION
Cultural studies provides an analytical toolbox for both making sense of educational practice
and extending the insights of educational professionals into their labors. In this context
Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education
provides a collection of books in the domain
that specify this assertion. Crafted for an audience of teachers, teacher educators, scholars and
students of cultural studies and others interested in cultural studies and pedagogy, the series
documents both the possibilities of and the controversies surrounding the intersection of
cultural studies and education. The editors and the authors of this series do not assume that the
interaction of cultural studies and education devalues other types of knowledge and analytical
forms. Rather the intersection of these knowledge disciplines offers a rejuvenating, optimistic,
and positive perspective on education and educational institutions. Some might describe its
contribution as democratic, emancipatory, and transformative. The editors and authors maintain
that cultural studies helps free educators from sterile, monolithic analyses that have for too long
undermined efforts to think of educational practices by providing other words, new languages,
and fresh metaphors. Operating in an interdisciplinary cosmos, Transgressions: Cultural
Studies and Education is dedicated to exploring the ways cultural studies enhances the study
and practice of education. With this in mind the series focuses in a non-exclusive way on
popular culture as well as other dimensions of cultural studies including social theory, social
justice and positionality, cultural dimensions of technological innovation, new media and media
literacy, new forms of oppression emerging in an electronic hyperreality, and postcolonial
global concerns. With these concerns in mind cultural studies scholars often argue that the
realm of popular culture is the most powerful educational force in contemporary culture.
Indeed, in the twenty-first century this pedagogical dynamic is sweeping through the entire
world. Educators, they believe, must understand these emerging realities in order to gain an
important voice in the pedagogical conversation.
Without an understanding of cultural pedagogy’s (education that takes place outside of
formal schooling) role in the shaping of individual identity–youth identity in particular–the
role educators play in the lives of their students will continue to fade. Why do so many of our
students feel that life is incomprehensible and devoid of meaning? What does it mean, teachers
wonder, when young people are unable to describe their moods, their affective affiliation to
the society around them. Meanings provided young people by mainstream institutions often
do little to help them deal with their affective complexity, their difficulty negotiating the
rift between meaning and affect. School knowledge and educational expectations seem as
anachronistic as a ditto machine, not that learning ways of rational thought and making
sense of the world are unimportant.
But school knowledge and educational expectations often have little to offer students
about making sense of the way they feel, the way their affective lives are shaped. In no way
do we argue that analysis of the production of youth in an electronic mediated world
demands some “touchy-feely” educational superficiality. What is needed in this context is a
rigorous analysis of the interrelationship between pedagogy, popular culture, meaning making,
and youth subjectivity. In an era marked by youth depression, violence, and suicide such
insights become extremely important, even life saving. Pessimism about the future is the
common sense of many contemporary youth with its concomitant feeling that no one can
make a difference.
If affective production can be shaped to reflect these perspectives, then it can be reshaped
to lay the groundwork for optimism, passionate commitment, and transformative educational
and political activity. In these ways cultural studies adds a dimension to the work of
education unfilled by any other sub-discipline. This is what Transgressions: Cultural Studies
and Education seeks to produce—literature on these issues that makes a difference. It seeks
to publish studies that help those who work with young people, those individuals involved in
the disciplines that study children and youth, and young people themselves improve their
lives in these bizarre times.
Re-Symbolization of the Self
Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic
Inna Semetsky
University of Newcastle, Australia
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Cover: “The White Bird”, artist Michail Grobman. Painting, gouache on
paper, 1987.
Reproduced with the artist’s permission.
and:
Illustrations of Tarot pictures are from the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck.
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