America's Consumerocracy: No Safe Haven

Autor/inn/en	Daily, Nancy Lee; Swain, Letitia Price; Huysman, Mary; Tarrant, Cynthia
Titel	America's Consumerocracy: No Safe Haven
Quelle	In: English Journal, 99 (2010) 3, S.37-41 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-8274
Schlagwörter	Secondary Education; Curriculum Development; Adolescents; Life Style; Purchasing; Consumer Economics; Critical Thinking; Culture; Social Class; Educational Environment; Marketing; School Role; Educational Finance; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sekundarbereich; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Lebensstil; Beschaffungswesen; Kauf; Konsumökonomie; Kritisches Denken; Kultur; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Bildungsfonds; USA
Abstract	Recently the authors completed a course designed to expand and deepen their knowledge about America's consumerocracy and the methods that give it the immense power it has. As a result of their reading and shared thinking in this course, Teaching Adolescents in a Consumer Society, they feel strongly motivated and better prepared to craft educational responses to the relentless, all-encompassing pressure to buy--from which, they have discovered, neither they nor their students have any safe haven. In this article, the authors present ideas from their course that they believe readers of "English Journal" may find useful as they design units on consumption and critical thinking for their students. The authors share some of what they learned about exploitative commercialism, social class, and adolescents and offer some recommendations for other teachers. (Contains 1 note.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10