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Rickards, Nicholas G. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
Through the use of horror movie motifs like zombies and mad doctors, "The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" (2015) stands in drastic contrast to other young adult dystopian properties like "The Hunger Games" (2012), for example, in that "Scorch Trials" uses allegory as a means to comment on neoliberalism, alienated…
Descriptors: Films, Popular Culture, Young Adults, Social Systems
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Crioni, Renato; Gomes, Luiz Roberto; Zuin, Antônio Álvaro Soares – Policy Futures in Education, 2015
The extensive work of Habermas's intellectual legacy is comparable to the depth and complexity of his reflections. The debates among thinkers close to the conclusions of Adorno and Horkheimer and the mature positions of Habermas are also known. However, despite the marked differences, both of them seem to share a common interpretation: that…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Social Systems, Educational Philosophy, Ideology
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Attfield, David – British Journal of Religious Education, 2008
John Hull's recent educational writings have included several on what he calls the "money culture". This is analysed and criticised in this article. Hull offers a Marxist and a neo-Marxist account of the role of money in western societies utilising the labour theory of value, false consciousness and the materialist interpretation of history. It is…
Descriptors: Ideology, Consumer Education, Marxian Analysis, Social Stratification