Distinguished international scholars from a wide range of disciplines explore consumption and its relation to learning, identity development, and education. This volume is unique within the literature of education in its examination of educational sites – both formal and informal – where learners and teachers are resisting consumerism and enacting a critical pedagogy of consumption.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Exploring Consumption’s Pedagogy and Envisioning a Critical Pedagogy of Consumption—Living and Learning in the Shadow of the "Shopocalypse," Jennifer A. Sandlin, Arizona State University and Peter McLaren, UCLAPart I: Education, Consumption, and the Social, Economic, and Environmental Crises of CapitalismChapter 2: Rootlessness, Reenchantment and Educating Desire: A Brief History of the Pedagogy of Consumption, Michael Hoechsmann, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaChapter 3: Consuming Learning, Robin Usher, RMIT University, Melbourne, AustraliaChapter 4: Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue, Richard Kahn, University of North DakotaChapter 5: Teaching Against Consumer Capitalism in the Age of Commercialization and Corporatization of Public Education, Ramin Farahmandpur, Portland State UniversityPart II: Schooling the Consumer CitizenChapter 6: Schooling for Consumption, Joel Spring, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New YorkChapter 7: Schools Inundated in a Marketing-Saturated World, Alex Molnar, Arizona State University, Faith Boninger, Arizona State University, Gary Wilkinson, University of Hull, England and Joseph Fogarty, Corballa National School, Sligo, Ireland and Chairperson of the Campaign for Commercial-Free EducationChapter 8: Exploring the Privatized Dimension of Entrepreneurship Education and its Link to the Emergence of the College Student Entrepreneur, Matthew M. Mars, McGuire Center of Entrepreneurship, University of ArizonaChapter 9: Framing Higher Education: Nostalgia, Entrepreneurship, Consumerism and Redemption, Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University and Eric Haas, WestEd, Oakland, CAChapter 10: Politicizing Consumer Education: Conceptual Evolutions, Sue L. T. McGregor, Mount St. Vincent University, Halifax, Canada Part III: Consumption, Popular Culture, Everyday Life, and the Education of DesireChapter 11: Consuming the All-American Corporate Burger: McDonald’s "Does It All For You," Joe L. KincheloeChapter 12: Barbie: The Bitch Can Buy Anything, Shirley R. Steinberg, McGill University, Montreal, CanadaChapter 13: Consuming Skin: Dermographies of Female Subjection and Abjection, Jane Kenway, Monash University, Victoria, Australia and Elizabeth Bullen, Deakin University, Victoria, AustraliaChapter 14: Happy Cows and Passionate Beefscapes: Nature as Landscape and Lifestyle in Food Advertisements, Anne Marie Todd, San Jose State UniversityChapter 15: Creating the Ethical Parent-Consumer Subject: Commerce, Moralities and Pedagogies in Early Parenthood, Lydia Martens, Keele University, UKChapter 16: Chocolate, Place, and a Pedagogy of Consumer Privilege, David A. Greenwood, Washington State UniversityPart IV: Unlearning Consumerism through Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Sites of Contestation and ResistanceChapter 17: Re-Imagining Consumption: Political and Creative Practices of Arts-Based Environmental Adult Education, Darlene E. Clover, University of Victoria, Canada and Katie Shaw, University of Victoria, CanadaChapter 18: Using Cultural Production to Undermine Consumption: Paul Robeson as Radical Cultural Worker, Stephen D. Brookfield, University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, MNChapter 19: Beyond the Culture Jam, Valerie Scatamburlo-D’Annibale, University of Windsor, Ontario, CanadaChapter 20: Global Capitalism and Strategic Visual Pedagogy, David Darts, New York University and Kevin Tavin, The Ohio State UniversityChapter 21: Turning America Into a Toy Store, Henry A. Giroux, McMaster UniversityChapter 22: United We Consume? Artists Trash Consumer Culture and Corporate Green Washing, Nicolas Lampert, Visual Artist, JustSeeds Visual Resistance Artists’ CooperativeList of Contributors

"Utopian in theme and implication, this book shows how the practices of critical, interpretive inquiry can help change the world in positive ways…. This is the promise, the hope, and the agenda that is offered."--Norman K. Denzin, From the Foreword "Its focus on learning, education and pedagogy gives this book a particular relevance and significance in contemporary cultural studies. Its impressive authors, thoughtful structuring, wide range of perspectives, attention to matters of educational policy and practice, and suggestions for transformative pedagogy all provide for a compelling and significant volume."--H. Svi Shapiro, University of North Carolina–Greensboro